<?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[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough because we have lost some tough games this season. It's an area I hope we can solve by the time we begin region play because that is when it counts the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58382]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, "The real teacher is within you." Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40298]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should blush   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,    To show myself a glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly   Dipping into the flowers of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29980]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in November) and added,] They're very tight-lipped about their private lives. ... next year there'll be the three of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon Zoo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a long journey straw waighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49532]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a long journey straw waighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361]]></link><description><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because I don't get the opportunities that I normally would get. But if I am in a situation that is out of my control, everyone is still going to hold me responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,   To-morrow may be dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18294</guid></item></channel></rss>