<?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[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081]]></link><description><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been found   By some to be the most profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46592]]></link><description><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go out and do our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go out and do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a bit more sedate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12315]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where words fail, music speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where words fail, music speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item></channel></rss>