<?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[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said,   "Whose image never may depart,    Deep graven on this grateful heart,     Till memory be dead."      . . . .       St. Leon paused, as if he would        Not breathe her name in careless mood         Thus lightly to another;          Then bent his noble head, as though           To give the word the reverence due,            And gently said, "My mother!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did lie; With our poor flesh and our poor blood Was clothed that everlasting good The Lord Christ Jesu, God's son dear, Was a guest and a stranger here; Us for to bring from misery, That we might live eternally. All this did he for us freely, For to declare his great mercy; All Christendom be merry therefore, And give him thanks for evermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, we call them to attend us,   Without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of extra outs, meaning errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44425]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver hates you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the tournament we've gotten better defensively ... in our first two playoff games, our defense basically won it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the tournament we've gotten better defensively ... in our first two playoff games, our defense basically won it for us. All three games have been down to the wire and we handled adversity well in all three games. The kids have a lot of heart and they're really competitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49658]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that blames would buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49324]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that blames would buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want our secondary to be known as just a bunch of cover guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34079]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want our secondary to be known as just a bunch of cover guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887</guid></item></channel></rss>