<?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[Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould  Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould  Although the March breeze blew keen on her face,   Although the white snow lay in many a place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned   Sole monarch of the universal earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781</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[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is a man's invention and his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance twinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48952]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urguentur ignotique sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52430]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231</guid></item></channel></rss>