<?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[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a pound at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,   Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175]]></link><description><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye of day;   So dies a wave along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54000]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter!  I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought!   Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28940</guid></item></channel></rss>