<?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[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48187]]></link><description><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather than debating issues as serious as equality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28536]]></link><description><![CDATA[All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3077]]></link><description><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900</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[Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too;  For no form of a god, and no fashion   Man has made in his desperate passion,    But is worthy some worship of mine;     Not too hot with a gross belief,      Nor yet too cold with pride,       I will bow me down where my brothers bow,        Humble, but open eyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This oiled and curled Assyrian bull, Smelling of musk and of insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This oiled and curled Assyrian bull, Smelling of musk and of insolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really happy that the girls didn't quit (when they got down). Our pitcher got lit up and lit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really happy that the girls didn't quit (when they got down). Our pitcher got lit up and lit up hard. Our kids could have very easily put their heads down and quit, but they didn't. Our kids executed very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5019]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really get down on our guys, because they showed great effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional funds she is proposing will accelerate some of the highest priority actions on the ground, while the new public-private partnership will build the broader coalition needed to safeguard the future of this great natural area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514</guid></item></channel></rss>