<?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[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ... We've had a few families say, `Oh my God. Thank you for coming over. Yes, we need your help.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara juventus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to better myself. I want to get a better job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to better myself. I want to get a better job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. I liked those games in Maui. I'm still going to play hard against Quinnipiac, but next week we start a bigger, real-deal season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two, and the U.S. team, are in such a good space right now. They are strictly tunnel vision. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33351]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two, and the U.S. team, are in such a good space right now. They are strictly tunnel vision. No distractions. No reason for distractions. I think they're going in as strong as they could be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35740]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15822]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've dropped four and it's going to be hard to keep our heads up and think that we can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've dropped four and it's going to be hard to keep our heads up and think that we can win another one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53131]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18031]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item></channel></rss>