<?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[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39757]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and a shot. We've got to get some movement to score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</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><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same side of the ball before we part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30566]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot of things that we need to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14555</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[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42816]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32781]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home safely at the end of the day. We are proud of our employees who are dedicated and vigilant when it comes to safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he jumps in and he expected to work into the seventh every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, andchoosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want where we are to be publicized. We don't do a lot to draw attention to ourselves. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want where we are to be publicized. We don't do a lot to draw attention to ourselves. We do what we do quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035]]></link><description><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42888</guid></item></channel></rss>