<?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 wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,    And no dear mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3108]]></link><description><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45840]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17123]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woman will rent out her RV for a family until they can find something more permanent here, ... Another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36876]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woman will rent out her RV for a family until they can find something more permanent here, ... Another couple said they will lend their duplex rent free for as long as it takes until they can get their feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light to the mind or peace to the heart... How human is the God of the Old Testament -- the God who appears, speaks, guides, who loves and is loved, even as the Man of the New Testament, Christ Jesus, is divine! This difference between the idea of an absolute and infinite God and the God of Scripture is, after all, that which separates the true believer and Christian from the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565]]></link><description><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,   Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24941]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale and cider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato perit sanguine Cappadocis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released fromhis present service and provided with another master. Jupiter,after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him tobe sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he hadheavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, hepetitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling himthat it would be the last time that he could grant his request,ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he hadfallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation,said, groaning: It would have been better for me to have beeneither starved by the one, or to have been overworked by theother of my former masters, than to have been bought by mypresent owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, andmake me useful to him.He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received so much support since I've arrived here from the fans and the coaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30014</guid></item></channel></rss>