<?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[Discipline is remembering what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is remembering what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as we are men. But we do not ordinarily apply it to the best purposes. It is not so ordinary for men to resolve to be good as to resolve to be rich and great, not so common for men to resolve against sin as to resolve against poverty and suffering. It is not so usual for men to resolve to keep a good conscience as to keep a good place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4504]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent the last month looking at special teams film, mornings and afternoons. Go home at night and I'm watching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent the last month looking at special teams film, mornings and afternoons. Go home at night and I'm watching horror film, watching all the misery, looking at all those people having their lives changed forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30811]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every risk is worth taking as long as its for a Good cause and contributes to a Good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every risk is worth taking as long as its for a Good cause and contributes to a Good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38074]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be fine when I got to practice on Monday. By the time I got to practice, the players had already started running practice and I knew that they were serious about getting right back to work and were committed to bouncing back and playing to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38074</guid></item></channel></rss>