<?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[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just can't say enough good things about him and what he meant to the program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the company in general is in very good shape, but there are some general investor concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the company in general is in very good shape, but there are some general investor concerns about how long Stryker can maintain its 20-plus percent growth in earnings operational rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17684]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60049]]></link><description><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they don't have a strong inside game, and that could be a plus for us. Hopefully we're going to rely on that and hopefully some good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3705]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125</guid></item></channel></rss>