<?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[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat themas probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both my parents really valued public education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25944]]></link><description><![CDATA[In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technique and mind are just like the front and back of one’s hand, meaning they are very closely related. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technique and mind are just like the front and back of one’s hand, meaning they are very closely related.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows,  The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,   For Douglas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows,  The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,   For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller markets are on a much more even playing field, ... There's keen excitement for the season, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller markets are on a much more even playing field, ... There's keen excitement for the season, if the league sticks to rule changes they have banked so much on and told the public so much about. If they backslide, they'll chase off fans with the same old product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye,   O mortal men! be wary how ye judge:    For we, who see the Maker, know not yet     The number of the chosen; and esteem      Such scantiness of knowledge our delight:       For all good is, in that primal good,        Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promising career can be cut short, ... The knee is the number one body part injured in football and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42581]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promising career can be cut short, ... The knee is the number one body part injured in football and a single injury can cost a scholarship or end a career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Continuing a short series on prayer:   Hunger may drive the runaway child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Continuing a short series on prayer:   Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at home; but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need: prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer... So begins a communion, a talking with God, a coming-to-one with Him, which is the sole end of prayer, yea, of existence itself in its infinite phases. We must ask that we may receive; but that we should receive what we ask in respect of our lower needs, is not God's end in making us pray, for He could give us everything without that: to bring His child to His knee, God withholds that man may ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst abuse of process is that the United States senators ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â the majority of which were for John Bolton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst abuse of process is that the United States senators ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â the majority of which were for John Bolton ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â were denied the opportunity to have the fairness of an up or down vote, ... What they ought to be doing, instead of diminishing and criticizing John Bolton, they ought to get behind him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65264]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13442]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61798]]></link><description><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item></channel></rss>