<?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[We have had problems playing teams that don't have good records. This is the first time this year we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have had problems playing teams that don't have good records. This is the first time this year we have led wire to wire. One of our goals was to run and if we didn't have anything, to set it up in the half court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39501]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es  Semine quando opus est rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26814]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips  If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr.   I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln   Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner   Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope to honor the tradition by giving everything that I have to my guys and to the recruiting process to bring in the best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37544</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'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47315]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66378]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the nature of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the nature of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is what you get when you don't get what youwant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is what you get when you don't get what youwant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10131]]></link><description><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346]]></link><description><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40813]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards looks.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item></channel></rss>