<?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[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul trouble. When he came out of the game, we stopped attacking the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35113]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. But the only way you can get it is by earning it. We don't mind doing that. That's what we've had to do all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50734]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on offense, or defense. Unfortunately, it wore us down a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204</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[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32281]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52310]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is yesterday's pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is yesterday's pupil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19671]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is fifteen years older than I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important day, big with the fate   Of Cato, and of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66114]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the friendly relations between Russia and Iran, I hope we will settle the crisis that has emerged recently together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the friendly relations between Russia and Iran, I hope we will settle the crisis that has emerged recently together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drowning man is not troubled by rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drowning man is not troubled by rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35547]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35547</guid></item></channel></rss>