<?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[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman was God's second mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players are going to be there, and it should be a good preview of the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that we get twice a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66357]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901]]></link><description><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,   Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3177]]></link><description><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49053]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41480]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4110]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in a peal, one and all,   For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item></channel></rss>