<?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[What's going to happen everywhere, everywhere, the first thing that's going to happen is as many people as possible are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35835]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's going to happen everywhere, everywhere, the first thing that's going to happen is as many people as possible are going to go find their kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever coached and it's thanks to him. He's such a huge part of the team. If I coach another 30 years, Bob will be one of the two or three kids I remember most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we void it up again   With poisonous spite and envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much harder and flatter and has a big serve, but he likes to play at the baseline. Kevin has the more all-around game and likes to go to the net, but he's not nearly as powerful as Kyle. They don't look like they started at the same academy, which in a sense is good. Kids don't all need to be taught the same way because they have different strengths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own? Condition is important, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543</guid></item></channel></rss>