<?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[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about a 14-15-point lead, really.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled to loosen up and our shots started falling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,   And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all highly qualified candidates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all highly qualified candidates,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of bright spots this season. But when we execute, we can beat anyone. We could push ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of bright spots this season. But when we execute, we can beat anyone. We could push the bunt down exactly where we wanted to, and this was just total execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, ... It's a beautiful crazy cleaned-up hand and it's not mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, ... It's a beautiful crazy cleaned-up hand and it's not mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all that I have met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all that I have met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aching tooth is better out than in, To lose a rotten member is a gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15497]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aching tooth is better out than in, To lose a rotten member is a gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And in the violet-embroidered vale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27006]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum  Non civium ardor prava jubentium,   Non vultus instantis tyranni,    Mente quatit solida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35331]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems small, ... but Latinos and Hispanics are concentrated in some very important states: California, New York, Florida and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems small, ... but Latinos and Hispanics are concentrated in some very important states: California, New York, Florida and Texas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item></channel></rss>