<?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[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248]]></link><description><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her constancy,   True friendship and fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. Such persons sooner or later turn their backs on an individual existence and strive to acquire a sense of worth and a purpose by an identification with a holy cause, a leader, or a movement. The faith and pride they derive from such an identification serve them as substitutes for the unattainable self-confidence and self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we have to change the schemes or anything. We still have our leadership, and that's the biggest key.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main point of the talks will be economic relations, especially cooperation in the energy sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main point of the talks will be economic relations, especially cooperation in the energy sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45142]]></link><description><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is only the will to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is only the will to reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27226]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36063]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a better owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judges and prosecutors are under threat and pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judges and prosecutors are under threat and pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next set of opportunities and values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more than just a ballpark. Our goal is to create a whole district and a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more than just a ballpark. Our goal is to create a whole district and a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far and Matt and I are concerned ... all I can do is compete against myself. If I eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33834]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far and Matt and I are concerned ... all I can do is compete against myself. If I eliminate mistakes on my end and just concentrate on doing the best that I can do, I think I have a good shot to lead the team like I did last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears,  Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue,   Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item></channel></rss>