<?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[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a big deal to our kids you don't have to lose to learn lessons. Unfortunately, sometimes you do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a big deal to our kids you don't have to lose to learn lessons. Unfortunately, sometimes you do. ... They played better than us. The same mistakes we've been making while winning were really exploited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for us on offense. But if we (UW-L's guards) are able to hit our shots, that takes a lot of pressure off of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns,   Ere sunset all is snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward by evidence-based benchmarks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55332]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31669]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been a lot tougher. We began running a zone offense to combat Plant's defense. All we did in the lead-up to that game was concentrate on beating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11104]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer used for attending church, but only for good deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build   My castles in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22838</guid></item></channel></rss>