<?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[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What barn-burners, ... We had two very good games, and it just boiled down to who wanted it more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29378]]></link><description><![CDATA[What barn-burners, ... We had two very good games, and it just boiled down to who wanted it more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite ... and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in our evaluation of pro prospects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40461]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17622]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure off me. Obviously the run game helps the pass. Nothing's changed in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not gold that glisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not gold that glisters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that he thanks God for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that he thanks God for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all is o'er,   A plunge, a bubble, and no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48548]]></link><description><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,   The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. First of all, he's starting to figure out that the speed of this game's different than it was at Howard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</guid></item></channel></rss>