<?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[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But he threw a strike when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate to see a superstar go beyond that point where he should. I have such a positive memory, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38623]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate to see a superstar go beyond that point where he should. I have such a positive memory, that's my concern. If people start talking about how he shouldn't be playing, it would devalue his marketability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31824]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden cardiac death. Although relatively rare, these deaths commonly occur in an unexpected fashion among those who appear quite healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the smell of roses!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways:  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,   Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49142]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They're obviously more talented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37106</guid></item></channel></rss>