<?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[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes you get in and sometimes you don't. But the judges do the best they can. If they saw something that kept me out of the top three, I have to respect that and keep working on my riding. All I can do is improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959]]></link><description><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men - and keeps on doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5038]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316]]></link><description><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55211]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young and old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children,    The sun as he journeys     His round on the lower      Ascents of the blue,       Washes the roofs        And the hillsides with clarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item></channel></rss>