<?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[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,   Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;    Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld     One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you decide to settle for less, you deprive yourself of opportunities to soar and make your life a blessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you decide to settle for less, you deprive yourself of opportunities to soar and make your life a blessing to others...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ever after the storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48509]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s interesting that astronomy can do this. And it?s great that there?s this ongoing interest in Ansel. We?re planning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s interesting that astronomy can do this. And it?s great that there?s this ongoing interest in Ansel. We?re planning to go out and see it for curiosity?s sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to sniff out a win and get it against a very good Central team. Hopefully that will carry over through (spring break) and get us going in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7652]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is a Jerusalem sinner who has crucified the Lord of Glory; and to whom, notwithstanding all this, the grace of God is exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Therefore the Apostle Paul himself is a pattern... of the grace of God abounding to the Christ-crucifiers. A new covenant is made with those who transgressed the first covenant. It is the brethren of Joseph, who have sold him into Egypt, who are made the partakers of Joseph's power and of Joseph's riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet  The beauty of thy voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item></channel></rss>