<?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[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told it so many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told it so many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46472]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything can be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything can be improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sinner like a young saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5997]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sinner like a young saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when a dream transcends to desire and intention is conquered by cupidity, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirabilityÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â is reduced to depravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and thought Columbus didn't have a shot, and I think maybe that is what we thought too. We were a little complacent, because I can think of one and half good chances we had. I think Kevin [Hartman] came up big to keep us in it, but it wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!  I linger yet with Nature, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!  I linger yet with Nature, for the night   Hath been to me a more familiar face    Than that of man; and in her starry shade     Of dim and solitary loveliness      I learn'd the language of another world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24173]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46730]]></link><description><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That was not Love that went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table and dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,  Sink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25609]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,  Sink in the soft captivity together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but what counts is not words but deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325]]></link><description><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day -- He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion; knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment!); knew, when they were crying, Hosanna!, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, "Crucify Him!", and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge -- how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19744</guid></item></channel></rss>