<?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[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge and human power are synonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49127]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't even rode that great this year. But I've been solid. I've stuck in the 40s and 50s in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't even rode that great this year. But I've been solid. I've stuck in the 40s and 50s in the reaction times and relied on the performance of the car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I knock at the Uttermost Gate.    Behind is life and its longing,     Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,      Beyond is the Infinite Morning       Of a day without a tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give up on love, because there is always someone who loves you. Even if it's not the person you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give up on love, because there is always someone who loves you. Even if it's not the person you were hoping for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like one of your favorite people. And then they say something and you remember why you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather have people just not commit the crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of what the government said is lies upon lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28516]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of what the government said is lies upon lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not fifty ways of fighting, there\'s only one, and that\'s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31960]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31960</guid></item></channel></rss>