<?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[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They got up on us in the beginning and we weren't able to catch up. It went by so fast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29489]]></link><description><![CDATA[They got up on us in the beginning and we weren't able to catch up. It went by so fast, it is just a blur to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just really excited to get that opportunity. To be the first team at College Park to set that tradition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just really excited to get that opportunity. To be the first team at College Park to set that tradition and win that title, it's just such an honor. I'm glad I'm a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When most I wink, then do my eyes best see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When most I wink, then do my eyes best see]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement debottleneck-ing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement debottleneck-ing, we are confident that we will be able to achieve our production forecasts for the year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just normal everyday kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40561]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just normal everyday kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is doing and accomplishing a lot of things that haven't been done in his family before. Everything he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32150]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is doing and accomplishing a lot of things that haven't been done in his family before. Everything he does is an obstacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56068]]></link><description><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30037]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run for governor next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemical toilets were a luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemical toilets were a luxury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61202]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647]]></link><description><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a good day for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item></channel></rss>