<?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[Let's meet and either do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14452]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23765]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With self-discipline most anything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12400]]></link><description><![CDATA[With self-discipline most anything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50013]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46859]]></link><description><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth   By labours of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a good spender God is the Treasurer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a good spender God is the Treasurer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is the folk music of the machine age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is the folk music of the machine age]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8232]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill   And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152]]></link><description><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,   The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,    'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permitus to use powers that we now are not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permitus to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22236</guid></item></channel></rss>