<?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[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64601]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24355]]></link><description><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19566]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob is a tremendous kid. He amazes me every day. With 13 seniors he didn't need to be a leader ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob is a tremendous kid. He amazes me every day. With 13 seniors he didn't need to be a leader last year, but he's really taken on the role this year. This is his team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big girls need big diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48031]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of voters in Iraq's 18 provinces reached 9,784,954 from the total of 15,568,702 registered, for a turnout rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of voters in Iraq's 18 provinces reached 9,784,954 from the total of 15,568,702 registered, for a turnout rate of 63.78 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/241]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27967]]></link><description><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum  Typographia   Ars artium omnium    Conservatrix     Hic primum inventa      Circa annum mccccxl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the mostgigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete exasperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27503]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everythingyou want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21467]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everythingyou want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash of color beneath the sky:    Hats off!     The flag is passing by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043]]></link><description><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has been a net plus for the nation's economy, and the Clinton/Gore Administration's free trade policies have been a big contributor to our nation's economic prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39663]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried to contain him as best as possible, but it's hard to contain someone so special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against (eighth-ranked) Texas A&M (Feb. 25th), we were in the hunt and playing decent ball. But we lost it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against (eighth-ranked) Texas A&M (Feb. 25th), we were in the hunt and playing decent ball. But we lost it in the bottom of the seventh on a three-run homer. That was a heartbreaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it up and down a few times, just steady stuff. And as the wind started to pick up, I kind of started to focus a little bit better and hit it closer and made a few putts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42430]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item></channel></rss>