<?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[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26923]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476]]></link><description><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain   To Nature parched and dry,    The genial night, wi' balmy breath,     Gars verdue, spring anew,      An' ilka blade o' grass       Keps its ain drap o' dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50299]]></link><description><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22480]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulousarabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less thana god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthened every shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32170]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't focusing on me and I could get open. That's how it's supposed to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1325]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63802]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to beat a bigger team, it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The converter only needs a power supply and some clocks. Feed it some audio analog and the device will do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The converter only needs a power supply and some clocks. Feed it some audio analog and the device will do the conversion and output digital audio in the form of I2S or left justified depending on the part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him an inviting target for liberals and Democrats alike. It goes with the territory. He understands that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631</guid></item></channel></rss>