<?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[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you wearing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you wearing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31511]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no chance. We got some more great pass protection on the second pass. Neff just threw it up for me to go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13345]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good draft class. These guys are all going to be good players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31407]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good draft class. These guys are all going to be good players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call it so,   Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars united in their spheres,   Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,    Where mingled and yet separate appears     The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd      Through the serene and placid glassy deep,       Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers   Will ne'er make grow againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,   And in its hollow tones are heard    The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found demanding, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got it all under control. None of the players off the bench or any of the fans in the stands ever made contact with any players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17588]]></link><description><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; the lord turns His face toward you and gives you peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844]]></link><description><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1566</guid></item></channel></rss>