<?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 should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted my knees up a little higher. Maybe I could have gotten in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is political.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619]]></link><description><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good phases, and for me the test was satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no point in staying around when you can get a bike ride in at the rink. Then if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no point in staying around when you can get a bike ride in at the rink. Then if we don't fly out until tomorrow we'll not have gone 48 hours without moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;  He will not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;  He will not see me stopping here   To watch his woods fill up with snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times is really a testament to the kids. These four seniors have been together playing for a long time, and I was really hoping to let them share in a 20-0 season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly behind her yet and thinking about another candidate probably would be nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence   Becomes a benefaction to the towns    They visit, wandering silently among them,     Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24116</guid></item></channel></rss>