<?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[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297]]></link><description><![CDATA[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just rolling in to the clubhouse when the game is over. He's put in that much work to maintain his body. He doesn't take his body for granted. That's why he's so good. That's why he's had longevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43988]]></link><description><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces the case for a near-term interest rate cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12962]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in our surveys) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in our surveys) is benefits, We decided it was time to get on the bandwagon and do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A dry jest, sir.  (Andrew:) Are you full of them?   (Maria:) Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The butcher in his killing clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The butcher in his killing clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5138</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[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,   Serves but to brighten our future days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514</guid></item></channel></rss>