<?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[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's up to the veterans and the pitching coach to step in and not let that happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41304]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no way. We would have had to replace the infields with the same type of stuff we have now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! the love that gold must crown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50157]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! the love that gold must crown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item></channel></rss>