<?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[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24241]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus  Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;   Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been increasingly difficult to buy even a 30-acre piece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been increasingly difficult to buy even a 30-acre piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, but we have no projected date for him. There's no way he's going to be able to take the ball in Anaheim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39809]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time in Chicago or L.A..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel frugalitatis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any punches. He'll express good taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42616]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;   A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;    A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;     A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;      A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;       A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item></channel></rss>