<?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[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62579]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up to where we wanted it. We forced them to hurry up their offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That least pleases us which is most urged on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50890]]></link><description><![CDATA[That least pleases us which is most urged on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? How'd you do that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18114]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  To its idolatries a patient knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39492]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be dead than cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be dead than cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores to see who will work with whom. When we were losing those points, they got a couple of fast breaks, and our defense just wasn't crashing in fast enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26977]]></link><description><![CDATA[of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31116]]></link><description><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item></channel></rss>