<?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 closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1879]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40703]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're taking a group of congregations together. One group may not be able to do much on their own. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're taking a group of congregations together. One group may not be able to do much on their own. But let's spread the burden; let's work together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34772]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to deliver education for every child, and some kids just cannot thrive in a mainstream school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51435]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-iscalled the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "DeadZone.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14168]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not abandoning the basics. We're trying to show people that we're about more than just basics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're getting better and better. The first game, we got crushed. Last game against Butte we tied and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're getting better and better. The first game, we got crushed. Last game against Butte we tied and this one we won. Best yet, we kept them off the board and got a shutout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got the skill and everything else he needs to be one of the top goalies in the league. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got the skill and everything else he needs to be one of the top goalies in the league. I believe he's really sharp. I never have to tell him anything twice. He's got that visualization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37319]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think that Reggie is going to need that much help. It's more in the area of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think that Reggie is going to need that much help. It's more in the area of the subtle aspects of working broadcasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was formed for society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was formed for society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable TV,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60616]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not whatwe say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actionscome from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic)rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others willsense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain thefoundation necessary for effective interdependence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34108</guid></item></channel></rss>