<?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[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who are already against the release of this information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25226]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356]]></link><description><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer last year to get DQ for that. Things happen, but that's racing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9100]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is neither male nor female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is neither male nor female.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50556]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the playing field gets dark very quickly in the fall. Many parents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32723]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the playing field gets dark very quickly in the fall. Many parents can't get home from work in time to watch their children play, and kids who'd like to play don't get a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The companies offer everything, but it's not customized to really penetrate the rest of the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling in that arena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of snow,   Dirtier than the ground below,    Dribbles down a marshy flood;     Ankle-deep you stick in mud      In the meadows while you sing,       "This is Spring."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being alone will never cause as much loneliness as the wrong relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being alone will never cause as much loneliness as the wrong relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473</guid></item></channel></rss>