<?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[Man is a child of his environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a child of his environment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33097]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When we're swimming, he doesn't even have to say anything. Just the thought of him being there forces you to try harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46439]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey with people who play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium  Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your own home. He (Woods) is probably going to want to redevelop the whole piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11535]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our God; Life, love, and joy still gliding through, And watering our divine abode: That sacred stream, thine holy word, That all our raging fear controls; Sweet peace thy promises afford, And give new strength to fainting souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17358]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the fact they're an organization that has absolutely no credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. We obviously have issues with its illegal uses, but to the extent that the use of the technology can be legitimized, we're all for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions totheir needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. Hedemonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved,the crisis overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545</guid></item></channel></rss>