<?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[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia is a good team. But when Spain does things right it's a powerful team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just glad to have another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just glad to have another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all the birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We apologize for the concerns we have caused to our patients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here to grow, to grow up in every way unto the full stature of a man newborn in Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62331]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir   Of joy and sorrow,    Methinks that there abides in thee     Some concord with humanity,      Given to no other flower I see       The forest through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what we wanted to do. That's what they wanted us to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a window of opportunity for those two kids and they need to jump on it and go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place,   For such preferment is disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence   Becomes a benefaction to the towns    They visit, wandering silently among them,     Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54326</guid></item></channel></rss>