<?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[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.I affirm only the best for myself and others.I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.I affirm only the best for myself and others.I am the creator of my life and my world.I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64137]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,   We first endure, then pity, then embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I.  If I must have a villa in summer to dwell,   Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa; bene est cui deus obtulit   Parca quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ft) above flooding levels at some places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23198]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28880]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From the elm-tree on the hill,    Chant away:     . . . .      Let thy loud and welcome lay       Pour alway        Few notes but strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions aren't good enough! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions aren't good enough!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long remembered beggar was his guest,   Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come a long way from the beginning of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to other teams because we've already won the race, so we know basically how to do it. However, there's a new challenge, a new year, a lot more drivers and a lot more teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747</guid></item></channel></rss>