<?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[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62560]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.  At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,   We will remember them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment in the face of conflict produces character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still saw the green route as the superior route. We truly believe it will have the least impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still saw the green route as the superior route. We truly believe it will have the least impact on all the factors we have to consider, including property owners and environmental issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the disease by delay has increased in strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the disease by delay has increased in strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37772]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224]]></link><description><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32226]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then the games are easy. It's just a mind-set. Work hard in practice and the game becomes easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59445]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,   And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;    With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,     While I carol away idle sorrow,      And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,       Look forward with hope for to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were really good in transition up and down the field. At the end of the first quarter, we tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37357]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were really good in transition up and down the field. At the end of the first quarter, we tried pulling out for the last shot, took a shot, they took it back and got a goal. They did it at the end of the second quarter. Transition was the big difference today, they were very good at it. They are by far the best team we've played this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45428]]></link><description><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27837]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a Christian has a strong sense of his individuality, never of his unity with God. Expressed more sharply, he has a strong sense of the Creator-creature distinction, never of merging or absorption. Or, to put it more sharply still, a Christian has a sense of his moral sin and not just of his metaphysical smallness in the face of the beyond. The dilemma for man is not who he is but what he has done. His predicament is not that he is small, but that he is sinful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53286</guid></item></channel></rss>