<?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[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54573]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194]]></link><description><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just like when they told me I'd never play football again. I just believe that we can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just like when they told me I'd never play football again. I just believe that we can do it. When we do it, then they give us congratulations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain   To Nature parched and dry,    The genial night, wi' balmy breath,     Gars verdue, spring anew,      An' ilka blade o' grass       Keps its ain drap o' dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle on long-term positioning when the market is moving up and down so rapidly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;   There, swan-like, let me sing and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could only love enough, you could be the mostpowerful person in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could only love enough, you could be the mostpowerful person in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a good decade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a good decade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588]]></link><description><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never wrongeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going   From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59602]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</guid></item></channel></rss>