<?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[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coaches always told me, 'Well, if you can snap, go over to the side and practice a little bit,' and literally I was always the only guy who could do it. So I did it in pee wee, midget, junior high school, high school, college. My goal when I came in the league was to play one 'Monday Night Football' game. Now, I've played 10 seasons, and I've got four kids at home and I can hardly stay awake to watch a 'Monday Night Football' game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brandon) Webb is a premier, No. 1 (starter) in this league. I felt I put some good at-bats against him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32649]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brandon) Webb is a premier, No. 1 (starter) in this league. I felt I put some good at-bats against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181]]></link><description><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney funded the programs or provided any services? Essentially, if it's nothing more than an infomercial, will it be presented as such? Or will it be presented as an independent production that's separate from promoting a theme park?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens,  Made them with the fur side inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44606]]></link><description><![CDATA[He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens,  Made them with the fur side inside,   Made them with the skin side outside.    He, to get the warm side inside,     Put the inside skin side outside;      He, to get the cold side outside,       Put the warm side fur side inside.        That's why he put the fur side inside,         Why he put the skin side outside,          Why he turned them inside outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot of chances and one has to say that Pagliuca was really good today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 6-0 to a pretty good pitcher (Pat McCoy). But one thing I've learned is with aluminum bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 6-0 to a pretty good pitcher (Pat McCoy). But one thing I've learned is with aluminum bats, you're never really out of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37847]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55280]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106</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[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24356</guid></item></channel></rss>