<?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[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a really wonderful way of looking at leadership development. What we're saying is, if you understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a really wonderful way of looking at leadership development. What we're saying is, if you understand the broad issues that make up the life of the city, if you understand its history, if you understand its architecture and its neighborhood and its place, if you understand some of the ethical dilemmas that leaders must face as they make different choices about a city, and if you can articulate that in some kind of a creative process, then you are prepared to take an active role in decisions and choices that affect your life as well as the city's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, to be in the way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a bit of a run over the last few minutes of trading. It was a market response to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42106]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a bit of a run over the last few minutes of trading. It was a market response to the announcement of the Russian rescheduling. There was a lot of confusion about those details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half todeath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half todeath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6789]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42554]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, with only pride at stake, they had better get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141</guid></item></channel></rss>