<?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[We've been working on getting balanced scoring. We've been preaching it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting balanced scoring. We've been preaching it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43166]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820]]></link><description><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought some guys in to start getting ready during the early part of Spring Training in case we lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought some guys in to start getting ready during the early part of Spring Training in case we lost guys for the [World Baseball Classic]. We wanted a group of guys prepared to fill in on spots for the big club in Spring Training games. Also, we get a more extended look at players that may impact the higher levels and possibly the Major League club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,  Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those who have to fight the battle of Christianity in the twentieth century," wrote Marcus Dods. "Yes, perhaps I do; but it will be a stiff fight." Of course, he did, and anybody with his valiant spirit would. There was a day when our Lord passed through cheering streets wildly enthusiastic; and another day when He watched the crowds deserting Him, till even the disciples themselves seemed to be withering, and He looked at them sadly. "Will you also go away?" He said. And Peter strode across the sudden empty spaces widening around Him, and put his back to Christ's. "No", he cried; "there are two of us, at least", and faced the world, Christ's poor minority of one. I would rather have been Peter than one of the shouting mob. And today, perhaps, we may get our chance of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55638]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but then they come together after the game is over and are friends again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39201</guid></item></channel></rss>