<?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[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32073]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on a ball cap or beret as the all-American girl-on-the-go. She's totally sweet, fun loving ... she probably bakes cookies. Guaranteed, her cell phone rings off the hook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus with the gods?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou make him to be any such thing, or make him to do any such thing, as thou in thy proportion shouldst not be, or shouldst not do. And shouldst thou curse any man that had never offended, never transgrest, never trespass thee? Can God have done so? Will God curse man, before man have sinned?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm religiously opposed to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm religiously opposed to religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illustrious Predecessor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illustrious Predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38854]]></link><description><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was a wake-up call, but it's a crappy way to get it. The kids have been resilient all season. Hopefully, we'll get another shot at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15148]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487</guid></item></channel></rss>