<?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 moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their silence cries aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their silence cries aloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's going to hurt these kids for a while, but a month from now, we'll be celebrating what we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43217]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er lesser powers that be;    But a mightier power and stronger     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on long-term factors, including demographics and income growth, the average annual increase in national home prices is likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on long-term factors, including demographics and income growth, the average annual increase in national home prices is likely to be around four per cent in the coming decade, so the recent high single- digit and low double-digit gains cannot persist indefinitely. But, the key issue is whether the adjustment to a more sustainable trend is gradual. The good news is that this is what appears to be happening in Central and Atlantic Canada.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up a couple times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night,  And casts a gleam over this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night,  And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583</guid></item></channel></rss>