<?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[I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin,  But the skin within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44614]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin,  But the skin within is the skin without   Doubled and carried complete throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world is good and the people are good,   And we're all good fellows together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three years is a long time in football and to say my time here has been eventful would be something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three years is a long time in football and to say my time here has been eventful would be something of an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to help get the information out to people while there's still an opportunity to make changes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to help get the information out to people while there's still an opportunity to make changes in the plan,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several things that have happened in this case . . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34459]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several things that have happened in this case . . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've won at every level, except college and pro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've won at every level, except college and pro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26627]]></link><description><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?    Wilt thou have pipe and reed,     Blown in the open mead?      Or to the lute give heed       In the green bowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27545]]></link><description><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for them. We're hoping we can be ready for when league starts again next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item></channel></rss>