<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:   This made me cast my useless shield away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person and a great friend, and he's helped us all understand his culture a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43071]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we got the shots we wanted and were in the right spots to score, so that's all you can ask. As long as we do that, the shots are going to fall eventually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and to hold the ball on offense. The less possessions they had, the better off we were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14138]]></link><description><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and the essay the kids wrote will be the centerpiece. It will pull a little at the heartstrings because the essay and pictures are so meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62569</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18806</guid></item></channel></rss>