<?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 can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46827]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8652]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God and sinners reconciled.!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66678]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34369]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44573]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's give it a couple of more years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55044]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item></channel></rss>