<?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[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and still had a chance. We wanted to win it all and this is a really disappointing way to end the season but it is a great accomplishment to get as far as we did and I am really proud of the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6209]]></link><description><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The "joy" that was set before Jesus was, we feel, knowing of the riches which would come to his brethren out of his death. In short, we are his joy, set before him when on the cross. As we have seen, only as the circle of the love of Jesus becomes world wide and as big as history will it be complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aut disce aut discede [Either learn or leave] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aut disce aut discede [Either learn or leave]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just glad to have another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just glad to have another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51726]]></link><description><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just the result of people pushed out of work due to Katrina and Rita. I think the market will look at it and shrug it off and look at what's going to happen in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51507]]></link><description><![CDATA[For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to their fellow creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to their fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does everything well. He always wants to get better. That's the sign of a good player. Coming in as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does everything well. He always wants to get better. That's the sign of a good player. Coming in as a freshman, he was really talented and now he's a much better player because of all the work he's put in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196]]></link><description><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18534]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24870]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33358]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when they needed to to get that win in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight holes. These greens are fast and bent. We are not experienced in that area, so we had some experience to gain today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426</guid></item></channel></rss>