<?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[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always safety in valor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always safety in valor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11395]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guards are really stepping up. They're getting into the lane and when (the defense) starts taking away the basket, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guards are really stepping up. They're getting into the lane and when (the defense) starts taking away the basket, they're getting the ball to me or whoever for the lay-up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if Fortune fill thy sail    With more than a propitious gale,     Take half thy canvas in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year tuition is reviewed and if tuition goes up, it is usually due to rising costs and general raises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year tuition is reviewed and if tuition goes up, it is usually due to rising costs and general raises due to inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7728]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42587]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item></channel></rss>