<?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[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3011]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is thehighest flight of human wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is thehighest flight of human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14060]]></link><description><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18444]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first reaction to truth is hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first reaction to truth is hatred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common fate of all,   Into each life some rain must fall,    Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314]]></link><description><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57276]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45471]]></link><description><![CDATA[One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22389</guid></item></channel></rss>