<?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[Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is children's television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27709]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is children's television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no must in art because art is free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3147]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no must in art because art is free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39250]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early and by the end it was a struggle. It was a very draining meet in terms of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown  From simple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27560]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown  From simple sources, and great seas have dried   When miracles have by the greatest been denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63132]]></link><description><![CDATA[True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,  Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2664]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45290]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take shots at you from the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up a combined 17 per cent from a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear that the revenue environment is stronger than anticipated and consensus upgrades are likely today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear that the revenue environment is stronger than anticipated and consensus upgrades are likely today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33811]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is the mother of parliaments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17983]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is the mother of parliaments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes for prisoners, the hospitalized, pilgrims, cripples, churchmen, and others. If only ten [other groups of] people were willing to do this, there wouldn't be a single poor man left in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize therewards of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize therewards of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many American kids, he wants to stay in America. But he knows this is a business. If the opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many American kids, he wants to stay in America. But he knows this is a business. If the opportunity is in Europe, he's fine with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11138</guid></item></channel></rss>