<?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[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke.  Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for us on offense. But if we (UW-L's guards) are able to hit our shots, that takes a lot of pressure off of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35380]]></link><description><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25843]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play Jake's Women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43327]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My potential speaks for itself. (who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57530]]></link><description><![CDATA[My potential speaks for itself. (who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428]]></link><description><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's breezy, hit it easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57752]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's breezy, hit it easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28423]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51864]]></link><description><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item></channel></rss>