<?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[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able to do it without him. By him being a recruiter and assistant in Lufkin and doing it for so many years, he was able to get it together for me. All I had to do was walk on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13500]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on God and the human condition:  Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17595]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41879]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was able to tie it with a free throw, it made a little statement to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round to the sea,   I am lord of the fowl and the brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56050]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is growing up without growing old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is growing up without growing old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61789]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I am I would not be,   And where I would be I can not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1223]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me But dreams of what has been, no more to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me But dreams of what has been, no more to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37050</guid></item></channel></rss>