<?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[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64260]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children,    The sun as he journeys     His round on the lower      Ascents of the blue,       Washes the roofs        And the hillsides with clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   Pierce that in you, that was the cause of Christ's piercing; that is sin and the lusts thereof. Look and be pierced with love of Him, who so loved you, that He gave Himself in this sort to be pierced for you. Look upon Him, and His heart opened, and from that gate of hope promise yourself, and look for all manner of things that good are: the deliverance from the evil of our present misery [and] the restoring to the good of our primitive felicity. Look back upon it with some pain; for one way or other, look upon it we must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes before destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124]]></link><description><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly usage on 3G shows higher revenue potential overall. The variety and quality of content and ease of navigation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly usage on 3G shows higher revenue potential overall. The variety and quality of content and ease of navigation on portal sites will play a key role in gaining traction and increasing the prospect for maximizing profits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1126]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was just a great game to watch. This is what Friday night football is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40878]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was just a great game to watch. This is what Friday night football is all about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item></channel></rss>