<?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[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early on, treating (sleep apnea) was largely a lifestyle issue because people were falling asleep in the day and this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early on, treating (sleep apnea) was largely a lifestyle issue because people were falling asleep in the day and this would help them feel better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the progress they have made. I think we are a lot faster team now than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37663]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the progress they have made. I think we are a lot faster team now than we were last year. As a coach, I want them to be able to swim different events. That brings more value to the team and it will help them after high school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still excited about this team. We have a full week of practice with these guys, which helps. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still excited about this team. We have a full week of practice with these guys, which helps. I know the kids are going to represent us and play hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated federal law. He's a product of illegal drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't playing too well. I think he gained some confidence in that game against Watkins. He was coming back from an injury and finally got comfortable and played his game and didn't worry about his ankle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52636]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand was sort of a blessing in disguise, because it allowed me to play four full years of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn't get down on themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't turned down this proposal. The Iranian government is looking attentively at the proposal, but it needs time. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35734]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't turned down this proposal. The Iranian government is looking attentively at the proposal, but it needs time. So I think Russia should have a certain time to perfect this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or the right not to be blown up on the way to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really get down on our guys, because they showed great effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18436]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do  All that is in my power to honour you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes the enemy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes the enemy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are bychanging what goes into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62168</guid></item></channel></rss>