<?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[It really makes no difference to me whether I start or come off the bench. Jason is comfortable starting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42157]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really makes no difference to me whether I start or come off the bench. Jason is comfortable starting and he's playing well at the position. Sometimes it helps to sit there and get a feel for the game from the bench and then go in and try to make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness of being little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is aware of the bias [that some organizations are more visible than others], which is what our committee discussed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is aware of the bias [that some organizations are more visible than others], which is what our committee discussed prior to applications. It's easy for applicants to forget that we know what they are thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29766]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom outweighs any wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47750]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession falls from this,   How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,--    I am perplext, and often stricken mute.     Wondering which attained the higher bliss,      The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis       It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely to plant corn rootworm corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hitting was her nemesis last year, but she still got to play good defense for us. She's gotten stronger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hitting was her nemesis last year, but she still got to play good defense for us. She's gotten stronger, though, and she's been hitting in the No. 3 spot during the scrimmages. I'm hoping that she'll be a surprise with her bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22429]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13442]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item></channel></rss>