<?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[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37574]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. We did that, and then on offense, our size took over. We got an eight-point lead and got into our half-court stuff and ran our offense through our big guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more thanthe intelligence quotient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   Consistencie's a jewell.    For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,     Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,      Wife Joan and goodman Robin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three or four chances after shots like we were giving them, they are going to hit those shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right / shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right / shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29783]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid package.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's warmer in winter and cooler in summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361]]></link><description><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25078]]></link><description><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to humor is surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to humor is surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63597</guid></item></channel></rss>