<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and passion for the game will be a valuable asset to the Timbers and to the soccer community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in being an innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in being an innovator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,   Seeming with bright eyes to listen-    For what listen they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theme of satsangh: that there is Salvation in numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theme of satsangh: that there is Salvation in numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things catches your Eyes, try to get it.But one thing catches your Heart ...Pursue it.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things catches your Eyes, try to get it.But one thing catches your Heart ...Pursue it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26065]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25028]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31663]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location, location, location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Location, location, location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14580]]></link><description><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62240]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on a ball cap or beret as the all-American girl-on-the-go. She's totally sweet, fun loving ... she probably bakes cookies. Guaranteed, her cell phone rings off the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item></channel></rss>