<?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[In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27178]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have the mastery. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have the mastery. There is a total difference between surviving sin and reigning sin, the regenerate in conflict with sin and the unregenerate complacent to sin. It is one thing for sin to live in us: it is another for us to live in sin. It is of paramount concern for the Christian and for the interests of his sanctification that he should know that sin does not have the dominion over him, that the forces of redeeming, regenerative, and sanctifying grace have been brought to bear upon him in that which is central in his moral and spiritual being, that he is the habitation of God through the Spirit, and that Christ has been formed in him the hope of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61338]]></link><description><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,    With God or man will gain thee no remission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent London.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32056]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand English to their side,   Or as a little snow, tumbled about,    Anon becomes a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His altars.In protecting treesmay no one falter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead is rethinking its view as to the near-term motivation of the Fed and the impact of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffer and expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffer and expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item></channel></rss>