<?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[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39728]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always think I'm feeling it, but unfortunately I haven't had too many great shooting nights this season. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think I'm feeling it, but unfortunately I haven't had too many great shooting nights this season. But I just kept hanging in there. It's a huge win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to stay. Luckily, our market had the available supply of homes for sale and lease to absorb the number of people who needed a place to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone,  Many guests had Cana;   Gethsemane but one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone,  Many guests had Cana;   Gethsemane but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2529]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officials offered to take four percentage points off that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officials offered to take four percentage points off that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question that coach Weis is going to turn things around. It's just a gut feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question that coach Weis is going to turn things around. It's just a gut feeling I've had for the last three or four months. I think he'll be able to do a lot with the program with the new facilities, this recruiting class and the next one. I don't think there's any reason why the program can't be headed into a direction of greatness. I have extremely high expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ugly, and is not lame,   But really a handsome and charming man.    A man in the prime of life is the devil,     Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;      A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,       He talks quite glibly of church and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37240]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This is a huge relief to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16664]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item></channel></rss>