<?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[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;   The varied and ample land,--the South    And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,     And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.   - Walt Whitman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51782]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28542]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red tape, and we believe it will greatly up the approval process on franchise loans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51603]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. [Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our effort was there, but when you don't shoot the ball well, you're not going to win. Thirty-nine points is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our effort was there, but when you don't shoot the ball well, you're not going to win. Thirty-nine points is not going to win a game against a team that has played in two state tournaments in a row.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29457]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38013]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5417</guid></item></channel></rss>