<?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[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28083]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34218]]></link><description><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My wife and I wanted to have more time to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58077]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48086]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born--ah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66833]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53471]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15]]></link><description><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601]]></link><description><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. It's more an evolution of the company and not (about) the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157</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[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have their pasta, but they're willing to eat a sensible portion with lots of vegetables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have their pasta, but they're willing to eat a sensible portion with lots of vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night;  Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell--   Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39732]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium  Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404</guid></item></channel></rss>