<?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[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3264]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it comes to a climax like that, it makes it all worthwhile. You reflect back to when they weren't in shape and not doing the little things. When you see it all come together at the state meet, it is very rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If you want to get along, go along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like tying our hooks, ... I learned it today. He (Broughton) tells us how to cast. You can't cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like tying our hooks, ... I learned it today. He (Broughton) tells us how to cast. You can't cast right behind you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the cages and coach (Bob) Todd said something to freshman Zach Hurley. What he said clicked in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the cages and coach (Bob) Todd said something to freshman Zach Hurley. What he said clicked in my head. All our bats finally woke up. It seemed like we were hit or miss the last five, six or seven games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen to you, understand what you are saying, and support you, will determine whether you win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot of challenges, and I look forward to working with the league office to help in any way I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in on in the D-line room and what (defensive line) coach (Larry) Johnson expects from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws a curve, drop and rise. She has made the move offensively to a left-handed slap hitter and now a left-handed hitter who can hit it over your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56070]]></link><description><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56070</guid></item></channel></rss>