<?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[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20353]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26810]]></link><description><![CDATA[As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianismare political systems. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianismare political systems. There are democratic communistsand totalitarian capitalists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me a chance to be a higher draft choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is to stop the run. Our goal, believe it or not, was to hold (Mon Williams) to zero ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39039]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is to stop the run. Our goal, believe it or not, was to hold (Mon Williams) to zero or negative yards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. - The Rising Gorge, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382</guid></item></channel></rss>