<?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[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all trying to get ready for the playoffs. It takes 20 guys in here to do it every night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all trying to get ready for the playoffs. It takes 20 guys in here to do it every night. When we have that commitment, we're a really good team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13345]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very pleasing to have qualified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very pleasing to have qualified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,    Where the woodbine alternating,     Scent the dewy way;      Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,       Waiting for the May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52903]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33602]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the NHL's repair year. They have to treat it almost like a new production introduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28976]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the NHL's repair year. They have to treat it almost like a new production introduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether the attitude is positive or negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy homes, renovate them as needed, and then use some creative methods to enable people to buy them, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy homes, renovate them as needed, and then use some creative methods to enable people to buy them, or perhaps lease with an option to buy later. In other words, rent to own. Every situation is different, so I stay flexible so I can design a program to meet the needs of the people who come to me for help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were going to acquire Callaway, the best time to do it is when the executive suite is vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31167]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were going to acquire Callaway, the best time to do it is when the executive suite is vacant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928</guid></item></channel></rss>