<?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 hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener or of Wetter.    Dip a spoonful out     And mind you don't get groggy,      Pour it in the lake       Of Winnipissiogie.        Stir the mixture well         Lest it prove inferior,          Then put half a drop           Into Lake Superior.            Every other day             Take a drop in water,              You'll be better soon               Or at least you oughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55731]]></link><description><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er   The lofty palace then his own no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51508]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a saint when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50900]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2934]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have two shoe boxes full of stuff. And that doesn't include half of what I have received. I threw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have two shoe boxes full of stuff. And that doesn't include half of what I have received. I threw a lot of stuff away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not then in strictest reason clear,   Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of a minority of my players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item></channel></rss>