<?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[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have stuck with it. They deserve to be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's whar de old folks stay.    All up and down de whole creation,     Sadly I roam,      Still longing for de old plantation,       And for de old folks at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a much better picture of species distribution throughout the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to either the Big 12 or the Pac-10. Arizona State has posted more non-conference wins versus the current BCS Top 25 (No. 9 Iowa and No. 25 UTEP) by itself than the entire SEC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43797]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42105]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market is going to be stable, you are not going to be able to have high-powered growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still remain,   Than thus remember thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please God in all his actions, as the happiest and best thing in the world, and then he will know that there is nothing noble in a clergyman but a burning zeal for the salvation of souls; nor anything poorer in his profession [than] idleness and a worldly spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ariel Sharon until now has not shown any readiness to sit together with the Palestinians to discuss all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ariel Sharon until now has not shown any readiness to sit together with the Palestinians to discuss all the outstanding issues,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49104]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's friend is no man's friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's friend is no man's friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me shots, so I had to take them. We all have the green light if we're open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21989]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything youset out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness ofpurpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596</guid></item></channel></rss>