<?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[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks got a little bit ahead of the fundamentals as a number of companies have met or exceeded second-quarter expectations but haven't necessarily raised the bar for future quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031]]></link><description><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19384]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozart is sweet sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mozart is sweet sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The thing I like about it is he really brought the city together, the black and the white. You look up to the stands and you'd see all races up there. ... He brought the city together a lot. That's why a lot of people around here hate to see him go, because that electricity seems like it's died down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the eye?   Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?    Yes; but not this alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the way you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy has failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called "laws of nature"; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this have been termed "miracles". But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41535]]></link><description><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my country. I played for Mexico in different tournaments. I even went to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1986. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41174]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my country. I played for Mexico in different tournaments. I even went to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1986. I feel great. I want to play for my team in any situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,   With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up the crime scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item></channel></rss>