<?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[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This business will never hold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024]]></link><description><![CDATA[This business will never hold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5088]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a glide time coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51109]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a glide time coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance sweet   To find some secret spell,--    A charm that has bound me with witching power,     For mine is the old belief,      That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,       There's a soul in every leaf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12533]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14936]]></link><description><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7596]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves -- a road To bring us daily nearer God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world is good and the people are good,   And we're all good fellows together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399</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[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item></channel></rss>