<?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 don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41683]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray the principles of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,   Thou are gone, and for ever!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/117]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11750]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4737]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to put them in some tough spots and capitalize on their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing game and the running game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it cannot reject it for future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52662</guid></item></channel></rss>