<?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 participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5126]]></link><description><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no friendship in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65779]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no friendship in trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,  That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor   Evan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,  That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor   Evan till a Lethe'd dulness--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good contrast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good contrast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33905]]></link><description><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21624]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32079]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25731]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teachesyou a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It looks like we are going to keep this lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53173]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate to 1.9 percent, up against the Fed's outer boundary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37384]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. Now, it comes down to reactions, quickness and your teammates. The guy who wins usually did a better job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000</guid></item></channel></rss>