<?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[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</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[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living   Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is over comming death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is over comming death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the enemy of creativeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was thinking touchdown, but it was kind of dying on me so I was trying to slow down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is we gave up way too many offensive rebounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/573]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens ... our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel comfortable taking the things that people were dropping off, but the people at Crossroads insisted I did. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel comfortable taking the things that people were dropping off, but the people at Crossroads insisted I did. They told me that people brought those things there just for me and that they wanted me to have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46644]]></link><description><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24596]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64552]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men;  The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then   The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBC is so deep and they can beat you in so many ways. When we were able to kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37299]]></link><description><![CDATA[CBC is so deep and they can beat you in so many ways. When we were able to kind of control their guards, they killed us inside. They just wore us out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item></channel></rss>