<?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[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental in what was accomplished last season and now is their time to shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking about is how do you find one person, among 20-some million in Iraq, who has the ability to move. That's very difficult, but that's the war we're in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50917]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57517]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved the watches, ... When I design something and I love it myself, I know it's going to be big.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: "The Lord is risen, He is risen indeed"; making it his chief business on that day to celebrate the memory of Christ's resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .   Sabbathless Satan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just behappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just behappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe bind, safe find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe bind, safe find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going to have to drag me off the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item></channel></rss>