<?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[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59376</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[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as the season has progressed. I think the experiences he had last year, more or less being thrown into the fire, are benefiting him this season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65302</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[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a great person to model yourself after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17239]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be denied to be good, but that we may not rely upon them, glory in them, or ascribe salvation to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synchronicity is God sending usmessages anonymously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synchronicity is God sending usmessages anonymously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15643]]></link><description><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their husbands in paradise).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46592]]></link><description><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of each other and we play well together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49541]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22331]]></link><description><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day never comes when it'll du   To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305</guid></item></channel></rss>