<?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[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me I had to snap the ball back to him every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20294]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41140]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were professional-looking. There were a few ball-strike calls I didn't like, but that's going to happen in the big leagues or anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one;  But I can tell you, anyhow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10526]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one;  But I can tell you, anyhow,   I'd rather see than be one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to theywill be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must firstbe who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have whatyou want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2159]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/493]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I thought we might have one after how well we played against Pilot Rock. But at least it was now and not next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of split minutes up and we were still happy. We really miss those guys a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had to close the door on him and hope he wasn't going to turn me around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no business living through that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no business living through that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64999]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item></channel></rss>