<?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[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30868]]></link><description><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,  Utters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,  Utters another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9728]]></link><description><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29874]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident that was too much to ask, Michelle was the first to say she had too much respect for the Olympics and for this country to go out there when she knew she couldn't. Here, it's a different sport and a little different situation. But I think you could plug in the same kind of comments with Jeff -- if it comes to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty and folly are old companions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty and folly are old companions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of God, yet making too much haste to have the glory of saints, the elements of fallen nature -- selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath -- could secretly go along with them. For to seek for eminence and significancy in grace is but like seeking for eminence and significancy in nature. And the old man can relish glory and distinction in religion as well as in common life, and will be content to undergo as many labours, pains, and self-denials for the sake of religious, as for the sake of secular glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have been seen but not yet recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;  The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,   And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want this to be an event that lives up to the advance sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want this to be an event that lives up to the advance sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he jumps in and he expected to work into the seventh every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459</guid></item></channel></rss>