<?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[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the great purpose of all things, and pressing forward to finish the work which is in sight, whatever the price may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that four people are dead, our team has seen their bodies, but there could be many more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that four people are dead, our team has seen their bodies, but there could be many more dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47160]]></link><description><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing exactly what we wanted. I knew that we would be alright and the goals would come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletionsis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21451]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletionsis a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason we're out on the street today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29618]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason we're out on the street today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4957]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47404]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own? Condition is important, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is going to be plenty of good digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is going to be plenty of good digging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look up and not down, To look forward and not back,  To look out and not in--and  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48367]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look up and not down, To look forward and not back,  To look out and not in--and   To lend a hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find the right fit as we move forward to renew men's basketball at Duquesne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59647]]></link><description><![CDATA[For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great cook - great Mexican food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606</guid></item></channel></rss>