<?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[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't gone out too early with our marketing message, and we timed our message with vehicle availability in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't gone out too early with our marketing message, and we timed our message with vehicle availability in our showroom. We are trying to manage our customers' expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up some weight too. They have responded here the last four-five games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46007]]></link><description><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood to life again doth bring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws   The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.    Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;      Woods and groves are of thy dressing,       Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing,        Thus we salute thee with our early song,         And welcome thee, and wish thee long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17477]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41405]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18635]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play your shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5742]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football well; this is an athletic team. We just have to keep working hard in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2860</guid></item></channel></rss>