<?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 tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing exactly what we wanted. I knew that we would be alright and the goals would come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750]]></link><description><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring different aspects to the game. They're doing a great job of getting the ball to their receivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the way the judiciary is being used as an instrument against critics now is a real problem. It shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the way the judiciary is being used as an instrument against critics now is a real problem. It shows the problems for the trials and the problem for the United Nations to be mixed up with these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15464]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried something different ? I didn't look at the last two there at the end. There are a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried something different ? I didn't look at the last two there at the end. There are a lot of worries, because sometimes it just doesn't happen and you're doing things you rely on. You know, we just always make free throws, and typically in a game like that, we're gonna win by 10 or 12 points because we're gonna make the one-on-one's down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown,   For reasons to himself best known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41054]]></link><description><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away. - Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60281]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want to gradually reduce the number of troops that we have in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848</guid></item></channel></rss>