<?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[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most kids, once they see it once are hooked. It's a physical sport, a lot of football players are interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most kids, once they see it once are hooked. It's a physical sport, a lot of football players are interested in it, and every year we seem to get double the amount of kids involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40588]]></link><description><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but could never make it work. But (North Lenoir) stayed in Cover 2 and just gave it to us. We decided before the game we were going to try it against them; we did it three times and hit it twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42035]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9655]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last five years we have seen a sea change in IT and telecoms infrastructure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last five years we have seen a sea change in IT and telecoms infrastructure,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43092]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41238]]></link><description><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other consumer products and media. Despite this, a number of regional newspapers have seen some very impressive results due to investment, audience research and focusing on what their readers want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally -- every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness of being little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upbraided morsell never choaked any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49133]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upbraided morsell never choaked any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - The Wisdom of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37351</guid></item></channel></rss>