<?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 people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,   The flying shadow will return no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for less than $100.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11269]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57245]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to donothing and succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to donothing and succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13348]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks  Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23813]]></link><description><![CDATA[But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks  Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go out there and get this game in tonight and have a good series here. It's out of our hands as far as the weather goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First come, first served. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175]]></link><description><![CDATA[First come, first served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7346]]></link><description><![CDATA[God wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're working feverishly to try to close the gap and to make sure we balance at the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're working feverishly to try to close the gap and to make sure we balance at the end of the year. ... There's no other option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to see all those hurt faces in the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46584</guid></item></channel></rss>