<?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[The point is that you can't be too greedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us in some games. So that was nice. We knocked down some open shots. David and Jeff made some nice moves inside. We controlled the boards and were able to get the ball down the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4787]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one life the aching,   Or cool one pain,    Or help one fainting robin     Into his nest again,      I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would have done as they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken foot. I think I did well on my passing drills and in the interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28049]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695]]></link><description><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55663]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4692</guid></item></channel></rss>