<?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 usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to talk about at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57529]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he proved against Jamaica his quality, he played very well, took his goal very nicely, and blended in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35971]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he proved against Jamaica his quality, he played very well, took his goal very nicely, and blended in to the system very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57175</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[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56265]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're in a chute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60322]]></link><description><![CDATA[VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such a toll they have to come out and rest for about an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35279]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an adult can relate to that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, so it drains a much larger upland area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65144]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--  Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--  Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen   Slumbering the festal hours away,    While Youth disports in that enchanting scene;     Till on some fated day      Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey,       And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.    Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be     'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010</guid></item></channel></rss>