<?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[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32170]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't focusing on me and I could get open. That's how it's supposed to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play defense. We knew they were going to run, and we were going to stick with our defensive plays. But the breakdowns added up and they cost us the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38398]]></link><description><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't turned down this proposal. The Iranian government is looking attentively at the proposal, but it needs time. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35734]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't turned down this proposal. The Iranian government is looking attentively at the proposal, but it needs time. So I think Russia should have a certain time to perfect this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62024]]></link><description><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014</guid></item></channel></rss>