<?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[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... I was pointing at the Memphis TV guys. They was talking trash, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth   And know not laughter's worth.    I have known laughter--therefore I     May sorrow with you far more tenderly      Than those who never guess how sad a thing       Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the job, we had some good veteran players. Recruiting slipped for a couple of classes, but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the job, we had some good veteran players. Recruiting slipped for a couple of classes, but now we hope we have things going again. We hope to consistently be in the top 10.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in Indonesia. But they keep telling me to change the name Playboy, not the content. It's ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10286</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, through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21665]]></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/21665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our policy with non-roster guys is that they be added after the workout (Sunday). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our policy with non-roster guys is that they be added after the workout (Sunday).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I doubted of this saw, till on a day   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35620]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item></channel></rss>