<?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 put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many a happy accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many a happy accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65579]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While bright-eyed science watches round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54824]]></link><description><![CDATA[While bright-eyed science watches round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11832]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1316]]></link><description><![CDATA[When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, you have to beat the best teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. Which is at the first sign of success they jump up to what they think is a greener pasture -- a big-time job somewhere else. But she's been patient enough to kind of build something that's going to be long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused on that goal, and we're working as hard as we can to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47415]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57676</guid></item></channel></rss>