<?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 forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or however many times they've won it, you're going to get up for them. Every time we get a chance to play them we want to do our best. It always comes down to the last couple of possessions and it's unfortunate someone has to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27598]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're really poor, everything you seeis something you can't have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47892]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're really poor, everything you seeis something you can't have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merchant has no country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merchant has no country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169</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/22248]]></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/22248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33119]]></link><description><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too familiar happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last the word is out that Somalia may be a next likely target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able to do it without him. By him being a recruiter and assistant in Lufkin and doing it for so many years, he was able to get it together for me. All I had to do was walk on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying is a profound pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying is a profound pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque and even immoral, many people make the mistake of rejecting the truth it illustrated (which is rather like rejecting a book as untrue because the pictures in it are bad). It is illogical to tell men that they must do the will of God and accept his gospel of grace, if you also tell them that the obligation has no eternal significance, and that nothing ultimately depends on it. The curious modern heresy that everything is bound to come right in the end is so frivolous that I will not insult you by refuting it. "I remember," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on one occasion, "that my Maker has said that he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left." That is a solemn truth which only the empty-headed and empty-hearted will neglect. It strikes at the very roots of life and destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466</guid></item></channel></rss>