<?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 so much balance to our conference. We just have to take everybody's best shot each week. We beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30594]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much balance to our conference. We just have to take everybody's best shot each week. We beat a great Southwest team. We cleared a big hurdle and we just have to make sure we don't hit the next hurdle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In practice, probably member states, some of them if not all of them, will have to pass laws in national parliaments in order to move from one regime to the other and this can take a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41584</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[Blood cannot be washed out with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15637]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097]]></link><description><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[realities we often overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39009]]></link><description><![CDATA[realities we often overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a real underserved market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a real underserved market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941</guid></item></channel></rss>