<?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[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension of the mind."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great football team with a lot of speed and size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a soup kitchen? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a soup kitchen?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes   Are but the beings of a summer's day,    Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm     Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand,      Disdaining little delicacies, seized       The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned        All the vile stores corruption can bestow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle will fall,   Down comes the baby, cradle and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our main goal is to accelerate their educations, ... But we hope that after they go to college, they'll return ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our main goal is to accelerate their educations, ... But we hope that after they go to college, they'll return to make their homes and careers in Texas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13426]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29561]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3769</guid></item></channel></rss>