<?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 came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do a better job ourselves of kick coverage, punt protections and extra points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157</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[It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33863]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shooting 34 percent in the state basketball tournament, I don't think you're going to win a lot of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shooting 34 percent in the state basketball tournament, I don't think you're going to win a lot of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook   Into the main of waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but the overall impact of the format has still been nominal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of fools with long memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of fools with long memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is so nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. People doubted us in this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item></channel></rss>