<?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[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the mostgigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult fieri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64010]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost -- if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us. We may discover at the crucial moment that we are spiritually bankrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.  Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;   Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come at us as hard as they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't worry about it. I'm feeling more comfortable every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties here now. I would like to stay here for a few more years yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard to handicap teams at Triple-A, because you don't know what the league will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing to put all the pieces together in a perspective relative to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64509]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24075]]></link><description><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57132]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57132</guid></item></channel></rss>