<?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[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189]]></link><description><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be some upsets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always fun to go to a first-year event and see how it is and get to see a new, different golf course. [It's] another opportunity to play against the best, so it should be a good week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want the teams to know I'm always prepared -- studying, breaking down game film, learning the system, execution -- I'm all business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke    Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still as death, as stern as fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9484]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, we'll run into kids who are about as fast as Drew. But those are usually smaller players. He's run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, we'll run into kids who are about as fast as Drew. But those are usually smaller players. He's run a 4.45 (in the 40-yard dash). And when he gets out into the open, he has a faster gear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6299</guid></item></channel></rss>