<?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[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994]]></link><description><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47830]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   A dog barks when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36242]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways:  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,   Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,    Which in success oft disinherits,     For spurious causes, noblest merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up the crime scene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which neverhappened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22680]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which neverhappened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item></channel></rss>