<?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[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or being consolidated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27606]]></link><description><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but then they come together after the game is over and are friends again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56181]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;   And those that under Araby's soft sun    Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251]]></link><description><![CDATA[To suck it up and do what I did means a lot more than when I was 40th on the money list and everybody was telling you how great you are,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of things,   Let Nature be your teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such as could be said   To be the most remote from common use,    In all these he was much and deeply read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our negotiating stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26823]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item></channel></rss>