<?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[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of representation, any student coming to IU will meet students like themselves, ... (Students) also will meet people totally and completely different, literally from all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult / Of our life's wild, restless sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult / Of our life's wild, restless sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God -- the knowledge which is eternal life -- and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those have most power to hurt us, that we love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those have most power to hurt us, that we love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they say they are going to call the rules, he should be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion ofknowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28675]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44220]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29040]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur during the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51708]]></link><description><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006</guid></item></channel></rss>