<?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[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to be a Buccaneer, and we want him to be a Buccaneer. In just a few days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to be a Buccaneer, and we want him to be a Buccaneer. In just a few days of conversations, we were able to reach an agreement with him, and it cleared up room so that we can sign some of our own players back and go out into free agency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627]]></link><description><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2649]]></link><description><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting off people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or the right not to be blown up on the way to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think we got away from attacking like we had. They had 20 turnovers, but we didn't take advantage of as many of them as we should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31588</guid></item></channel></rss>