<?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[Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la pudeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our offense was pretty good. We did look rusty at times but credit Lead-Deadwood's defense for some of that, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our offense was pretty good. We did look rusty at times but credit Lead-Deadwood's defense for some of that, ... We did add some new offense so it is expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone in law enforcement can tell you that our work to combat the problems of underage drinking has to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone in law enforcement can tell you that our work to combat the problems of underage drinking has to start with prevention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons  Of Belial, flown with insolence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22926]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons  Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26906]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is stronger far than art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is stronger far than art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51519]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54749]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're in a chute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item></channel></rss>