<?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[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a manager would send a pitcher ahead to the next city to wait for his team. I wanted to give Will the opportunity to do that. Why sit around for five months doing nothing? I figured she could be up there scouting out the hotels and restaurants and sightseeing tours for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44376]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someonemust be on top, why not you?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9052]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he go 41 other times? I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66216</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[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44323]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60592]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42720]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30858]]></link><description><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,So I'm all of the love that could make it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/308]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,   The milkwhite is the slae.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998</guid></item></channel></rss>