<?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[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16457]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me peace has broken out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me peace has broken out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is aware of the bias [that some organizations are more visible than others], which is what our committee discussed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is aware of the bias [that some organizations are more visible than others], which is what our committee discussed prior to applications. It's easy for applicants to forget that we know what they are thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by their example, pattern out   Their limitations, and regard of laws:    A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52351]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy works, Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine? Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing. And that have I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy? or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee? Yet woe to him that speaketh not, since mute are even the most eloquent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60554]]></link><description><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,     And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38400]]></link><description><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go out there and get this game in tonight and have a good series here. It's out of our hands as far as the weather goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18116</guid></item></channel></rss>