<?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[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers   Will ne'er make grow againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27595]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went against one of the best teams we've faced all year, and played one of the best games we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28594]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went against one of the best teams we've faced all year, and played one of the best games we've played in many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4286]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,   Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching concepts and the approach they need to take, it is a relief in a sense because I'm able to communicate with them on a better level to understand pitching. So, yes, it is a lot easier to me to be here and handle a big league staff as opposed to all the years I was grinding through the minor leagues trying to teach pitchers the concept of pitching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip away all season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the nozzle of the missilesTurned the dwellings into debrisAnd lives breathe under rubbleStill desires of livingThat will never be fulfilledSighing are heard in the airUnseen ghosts are roaming freelySearching their brotherhoodsLiving or deadSouls are still weeping bitterlyWith sorrows that never endIn the war turned atmosphereFlying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smellOdors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyardsTo wipe the terrors and even its ghostsOut of the worldly atmosphereReassuring pure peaceIn every people’s mindIs’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ?© Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When you watch them,you are likely to findthat - just like littlechildren - they can, and do,play tricks on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66753]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but simply God Himself. He has taken the initiative from the beginning, and has built our prayers into the structure of the universe. He then asks us to present these requests to Him that He may show His gracious hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An architect is the drawer of dreams ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3006]]></link><description><![CDATA[An architect is the drawer of dreams]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate,  And welt'ring in his blood;   Deserted at his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate,  And welt'ring in his blood;   Deserted at his utmost need,    By those his former bounty fed;     On the bare earth expos'd he lies,      With not a friend to close his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item></channel></rss>