<?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[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall between people and say only those things which they deserve to hear, but don't break relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our favourite holding period is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our favourite holding period is forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586]]></link><description><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight  The words of heaven; on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight  The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,   On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476]]></link><description><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could be bought by one of the floor-based markets, or an equity market or a futures market, with a big market cap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time undermines us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time undermines us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327]]></link><description><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies   With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item></channel></rss>