<?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[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care for nae-body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61557]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violet is a nun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violet is a nun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a retreat the lame are formost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49533]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a retreat the lame are formost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832]]></link><description><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17042]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088]]></link><description><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the Morning Show on Minneapolis, Minn., radio station KDWB. The drive was coordinated through WMSI-102.9 (Miss 103) in Jackson.] We got them in all shapes and sizes, ... Boxers, briefs, bikinis, thongs. We made this a fun thing, but underwear is one of those things ... people kept saying they needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;         Last, and as much containing as all these,          Her brother is in secret come from France,           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,               Will nothing stick our person to arraign                In ear and ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3404]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; and teach me how   To name the bigger light, and how the less,    That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee     And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,      The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16285]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly settles down and the float looked good   But the trout refused it and there you stood    A dejected fly fisherman.     You looked things over and were not yet beat      Then changed flies again and were ready to repeat       The next try was poor because you rushed the cast        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45363]]></link><description><![CDATA[World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane;  But pain is not the fruit of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item></channel></rss>