<?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[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26718]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14204]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63388]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first half we were firing on all cylinders. They couldn't do anything against us. We let them back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first half we were firing on all cylinders. They couldn't do anything against us. We let them back into the game. We let them get a couple of big plays and momentum and the bottom line is we just didn't take care of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630]]></link><description><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a window of opportunity for those two kids and they need to jump on it and go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, and we see 'Lord of the Rings' as a way to bring that back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be nice to win this time. It's hard to say what the competition is going to be like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be nice to win this time. It's hard to say what the competition is going to be like. I've still got a couple of weeks to work hard and prepare. I think I can do a little better than I did today. We'll see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item></channel></rss>