<?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[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65841]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16990]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond to the offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, not takers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's wreck,   Shone round him o'er the dead.    . . . .     The flames roll'd on--he would not go      Without his Father's word;       That father, faint in death below,        His voice no longer heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness -- and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203]]></link><description><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49111]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22709]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition for our shortcomings, using sorrowful and self-accusing words. And this often in all sincerity. But, at other times, we are not really much disturbed about it; or, at least, not nearly so much as our heaped-up language would imply. What we imagine that we are achieving through this unreality I do not know. We shall not fool the All-wise; nor induce Him to believe that we are anything other, or better, than we actually are! Were it not saner to tell Him the truth, exactly as it is -- not that we are overwhelmed with sorrow for our sinfulness, if it is not so; but rather this, that, to all our other sinfulness, we have added this last and crowning sinfulness, that we are not much worried about it, or, at least, not nearly as much as we ought to be. Be pleased, in pity, to grant us such measure of sorrow for our failures as will lead us to a true repentance; and, through that, to a new way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15833]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure that local communities probably get tired of people coming to them and saying this wasn't installed right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure that local communities probably get tired of people coming to them and saying this wasn't installed right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55554]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51063]]></link><description><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What did he do wrong? . . . Did you break some law, or did you rub some people the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What did he do wrong? . . . Did you break some law, or did you rub some people the wrong way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670]]></link><description><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56813]]></link><description><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5237]]></link><description><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5237</guid></item></channel></rss>