<?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[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried that double axel too cautiously. Feeling tired at the last, I thought I would fall if I jumped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried that double axel too cautiously. Feeling tired at the last, I thought I would fall if I jumped hard. In the free skate, I'll do two triple axels and perform like I did in the Grand Prix Final.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38371]]></link><description><![CDATA[[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according to a source. It wasn't a fractured wrist, as first reported by the team. He will miss eight to 10 weeks. ... Abraham, in his latest comments about his franchise tag/contract dispute, reacted coolly toward the front office.] I came back strictly for my teammates, not for the people upstairs, ... I feel like I've proved myself, but that's not proof for them. I have to work with what they're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what hedoes when he's absolutely free to choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what hedoes when he's absolutely free to choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament with his head hung low, apologizing for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  The pure, mere love of God is that alone from which sinners are justly to expect that no sin will pass unpunished, but that His love will visit them with every calamity and distress that can help to break and purify the bestial heart of man and awaken in him true repentance and conversion to God. It is love alone in the holy Deity that will allow no peace to the wicked, nor ever cease its judgments till every sinner is forced to confess that it is good for him that he has been in trouble, and thankfully own that not the wrath but the love of God has plucked out that right eye, cut off that right band, which he ought to have done but would not do for himself and his own salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51615]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I wouldn't want to do anything else. I love playing defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would have been the wish of my aunt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn,   Appoint appearance and return?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timing of his development and the development of our team didn't align. The fact that he was out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timing of his development and the development of our team didn't align. The fact that he was out of options forced us to make a decision. We feel he has a chance to be a very good major league player. Hopefully he'll get his chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still operating inside Lebanon. This includes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still operating inside Lebanon. This includes the infiltration by Syria of the Lebanese security forces, some of whom are acting for Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support were involved and the police were wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</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[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect the development of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40876</guid></item></channel></rss>