<?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[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64331</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[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking for. ... I need to get in and out of cuts ASAP. I need to be as good at that as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors:  (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time.  (2) They gave the same testimony every time.  (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches only the teachable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches only the teachable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths as moved with one desire   Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire,    Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay     With his red stalks upon this sunny day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The market] is under-performing in terms of sales because it's tough to find something that works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35449]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The market] is under-performing in terms of sales because it's tough to find something that works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every pang that rends the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every pang that rends the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17299]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22019]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland was living!   Here they grew,    From blue to deeper blue, in midst of each     A golden dazzle like a glimmering star,      Each broader, bigger than a silver crown;       While here the weaver sat, his labor done,        Watching his azure pets and rearing them,         Until they seem'd to know his step and touch,          And stir beneath his smile like living things:           The very sunshine loved them, and would lie            Here happy, coming early, lingering late,             Because they were so fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23457]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of each other and we play well together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to go in there and take care of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little support for a playoff among presidents of major universities, and I believe some voted for the 12th game in lieu of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an excellent setup all day, ... We never had to take any bite out of the car or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an excellent setup all day, ... We never had to take any bite out of the car or make any changes all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25332]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item></channel></rss>