<?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[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27464]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658]]></link><description><![CDATA[All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37546]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Captive primates in pharmaceutical labs can signaltheir peers of the approach of a predator white coated labtechnicianspoken on Diane Rehm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Captive primates in pharmaceutical labs can signaltheir peers of the approach of a predator white coated labtechnicianspoken on Diane Rehm Show week of Jan 1, 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38257]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today we just couldn't get them in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60931]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men;  The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then   The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze,  A Sapphire on her brow should bind,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze,  A Sapphire on her brow should bind,   'Twill cure diseases of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot anarchists are out there who see what they're doing as a long-term war against technology. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot anarchists are out there who see what they're doing as a long-term war against technology. They don't believe in taking credit -- they just want to do damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item></channel></rss>