<?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 actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now it's more complicated because we probably have more players abroad than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17096]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,  We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two,   Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect neighboring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36954]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect neighboring countries. And, I think as has been demonstrated by the movement of the virus that in fact Europe, Eastern Europe has been infected. We are quite concernedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦given the migratory paths of birds, we are quite concerned about Africa, although Africa has not been hit yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget who thinks he's a king, I refuse to talk about him any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a business without taking risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15863]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a business without taking risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55383]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,  'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, and still feel, that it was the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63596]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42578]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the main trials which beset you, but also under the accidental and accessory annoyances which arise out of them. We often find people who imagine themselves ready to accept a trial in itself who are impatient of its consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to his followers while at the same time protecting his health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36365</guid></item></channel></rss>