<?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[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34127]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20799]]></link><description><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Delphic sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Delphic sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent every second he's on the field. He leads by example and plays with a tremendous amount of intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is political.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,   That borrow their behaviors from the great,    Grow great by your example and put on     The dauntless spirit of resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59443]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't able despite all efforts to reach solutions that would satisfy everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36211]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't able despite all efforts to reach solutions that would satisfy everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4530]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906]]></link><description><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55917]]></link><description><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear  To some bright star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56455]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear  To some bright star in the supremest Round;   Through which, besides the light that's seen    There may be heard, from Heaven within,     The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25024]]></link><description><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to her bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off to her bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6208]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32993]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item></channel></rss>