<?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[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19352]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense and hockey will be here for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow   In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lebanese, during their uprising, went too far, as they put in question all police regimes in the Arab world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lebanese, during their uprising, went too far, as they put in question all police regimes in the Arab world which risked to reflect badly on Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35877]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set   His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud    Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give     Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him      Eternally--bidding the lip of man       Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour        Incense of awe-struck praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over how it's spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goods are theirs that enjoy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goods are theirs that enjoy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the board members examined the options, they decided that putting up a new building with all the latest technology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the board members examined the options, they decided that putting up a new building with all the latest technology would make the most sense. In the remodeling scenarios presented to the board, the district would spend a lot of money and still have old buildings that were just retrofitted. This way, it can have a new building by still utilizing the high school site and some of its facilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic for merchants on Main Street, increased tax revenue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/242]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9826]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, truth is so; That, wheresoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, truth is so; That, wheresoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying companies that are repatriating large sums and doing what they can to get their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are their followers who do not believe in the direction of the peace talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are their followers who do not believe in the direction of the peace talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25469]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25469</guid></item></channel></rss>