<?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's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab that's going to be way better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told,   In groves of oak or fanes of gold,    Still floats upon the morning wind,     Still whispers to the willing mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So clear of victory,    As he, defeated, dying,     On whose forbidden ear      The distant strains of triumph       Break agonized and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18694]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664   When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn this one down. We're being given a second chance to dig deep and get this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  Do scald me like molten lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13644]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have enjoyed my time in St. Louis and wish the organization the best of luck in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed my time in St. Louis and wish the organization the best of luck in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. During my senior year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. During my senior year of college Tom was looking for a building to start his boys' ranch. I went with him to look at the building that became the home of Butterfield Boys' Ranch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40455</guid></item></channel></rss>