<?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[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy in town. It was a great way to get into the industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is a receipt, not a bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is a receipt, not a bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old reliable, our defensive effort is what sustained us. I thought we made great stops down the stretch. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old reliable, our defensive effort is what sustained us. I thought we made great stops down the stretch. They have two outstanding players and a nice supporting cast, and I thought we did a good job in the fourth quarter, particularly the last four minutes, of making huge defensive stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57705]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory   Our stout old Commodores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22480]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulousarabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less thana god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960</guid></item></channel></rss>