<?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[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, so I wanted to out-run them. I told him to put it up there so I could make a play and he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fans don't boo nobodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fans don't boo nobodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are good kids here at Stone High. They always played hard. I have had a lot of good times. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36056]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are good kids here at Stone High. They always played hard. I have had a lot of good times. It's been a valuable experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62821</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[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an event that is growing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31942]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an event that is growing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54466]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A golden goblet gave.    [Ger., Es war ein Konig in Tule     Gar treu bis an das Grab,      Dem sterbend seine Buhle       Einen gold'nen Becher gab.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56513]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30197]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to pull that string tight at one time through all of them, we'd make a lot of headway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30197</guid></item></channel></rss>