<?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[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high oil prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high oil prices that are ailing the economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!   . . . .    Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!     In Dixie Land I'll take my stand      To lib and die in Dixie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pitch. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38500]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pitch. We advise they arrive a lot earlier on Monday. The later the fans wait to arrive, the more difficult it will be to get to and enter the ballpark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of things on the table, but there's nothing that will have a significant impact on the rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34067]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of things on the table, but there's nothing that will have a significant impact on the rate of increase of health care costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9427]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. •Dale Rice   Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty •Dominic Lawson   I used to be a hopeless romantic -- I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Now I'm a little more . . . jaded •Source Unknown  People say the word 'naive' as if it were a bad thing. Frankly, I believe that being naive, like a child, is being innocent. Being innocent is happiness. Once innocence is lost there is no turning back, we have now become cynical and jaded adults •Source Unknown  We'll have to change our jaded ways, but I've loved these days. •Billy Joel  ...time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own. •John Randolph  I'm not jaded but I'm not controlled by my emotions. It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. •Marilyn Manson  If I don't make it know that, I've loved you all along. Just like sunny days that, we didn't know because we're all dumb and jaded , and I pray to God I figure out whats wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606]]></link><description><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of cabbages--and kings--    And why the sea is boiling hot--     And whether pigs have wings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37657]]></link><description><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ... The Tigers have played I-AA Citadel, Louisiana-Monroe, Kentucky and Mississippi State. Between them, Oklahoma and USC have played onlyÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â three teams as bad as these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61033]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are games in which it is better to lose than win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are games in which it is better to lose than win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That says a lot about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but tread   Beneath our feet each deed of shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It used to be just the opposite. It used to be us watching them. We know about the established program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It used to be just the opposite. It used to be us watching them. We know about the established program they have (in baseball). Now, we're trying to establish something on this side of the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17649]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held,  Who then his pedigree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held,  Who then his pedigree presumed to trace,   Or challenged the prerogative of place?    [Lat., Primus Adam duro cum vertet arva ligone,     Pensaque de vili deceret Eva colo:      Ecquis in hoc poterat vir nobilis orbe videri?       Et modo quisquam alios ante locandue erir?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24241]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great stuff. That's what I told him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament with his head hung low, apologizing for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64039</guid></item></channel></rss>