<?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[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was definitely a goal of mine. It was a long training camp and it was a long rookie camp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was definitely a goal of mine. It was a long training camp and it was a long rookie camp to go through as well. It's been a long time coming but I'm glad I have the opportunity to maybe play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing for their country. In Mexico, they have two leagues. We're going to try to play hard like all the other teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of allegations about this board, but the key word is 'allegations.' We need to, hopefully through an audit, see if the allegations have any merit. I'm not necessarily digging for any unethical behavior, but after 20 years, I think we should take a look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mills and wives ever want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12482]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa    Juxta crucem lacrymosa     Que pendebat Filius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any student coming to IU will meet students like themselves, ... (Students) also will meet people totally and completely different, literally from all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item></channel></rss>