<?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[O world as God has made it! All is beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62206]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world as God has made it! All is beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;   Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54351]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait and see what the situation is. You have to be prepared for anything. You just accept what comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57700]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51413]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt   But being seasoned with a gracious voice,    Obscures the show of evil? In religion,     What damned error but some sober brow      Will bless it and approve it with a text,       Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item></channel></rss>