<?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[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing will especially help those on fixed incomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;   Motion so swift, we know not that we move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61051]]></link><description><![CDATA[To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46467]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is left -- then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace -- this amounts to using Christ's name in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This damage is straight line winds that took a long and narrow path. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33182]]></link><description><![CDATA[This damage is straight line winds that took a long and narrow path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63088</guid></item></channel></rss>