<?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[We've tried to put ourselves in position to play some really talented teams or individual players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've tried to put ourselves in position to play some really talented teams or individual players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65188]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young;  Bug all the tune that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young;  Bug all the tune that he could play   Was "Over the hills and far away."   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar   Twined amorous round the raptures scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</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[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1276]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41407]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19352]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't throw with great technique and rely more on athleticism and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40088]]></link><description><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the Morning Show on Minneapolis, Minn., radio station KDWB. The drive was coordinated through WMSI-102.9 (Miss 103) in Jackson.] We got them in all shapes and sizes, ... Boxers, briefs, bikinis, thongs. We made this a fun thing, but underwear is one of those things ... people kept saying they needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - we didn't have time to second-guess what we were doing and sanitise it into a more middle-ground story. When it aired it ended up getting three times the audience they expected. It was mind-numbing - I just couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417</guid></item></channel></rss>