<?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[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40774]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24040]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;   So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of spies is to know, not bee known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40058]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakerscalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23847]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This business will never hold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5024]]></link><description><![CDATA[This business will never hold water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can sit down and do it in an hour. They are great for beginners, but they also are popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41195]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can sit down and do it in an hour. They are great for beginners, but they also are popular for gifts. They are inexpensive and don't have to take a lot of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1957]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38095]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3213</guid></item></channel></rss>