<?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[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness knew?   Life to destroy for fear to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older and younger players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was it for this the clay grew tall? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was it for this the clay grew tall?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep seeing them go up, up, up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep seeing them go up, up, up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48768]]></link><description><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,   That gall'd not while it glitter'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49661]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she winds them round a young man's neck,   She will not ever set him free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4815]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything, things have gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42189]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything, things have gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012]]></link><description><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23925]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60243]]></link><description><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one hath a foole in his sleeve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385</guid></item></channel></rss>