<?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[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60928]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man dreams, the less he believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man dreams, the less he believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,   Knows the high art of what and how to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42159]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, they are less cautious. For, where the opinion has prevailed that all are lost who have not happened to be baptized with water, our condition is worse than that of God's ancient people -- as if the grace of God were now more restricted than under the Law!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Saturday they called and said, 'OK, we're making it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   To hang or wed: both hath one hour;    And whether it be, I am well sure,     Hanging is better of the twain;      Sooner done, and shorter pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around campus. We had a few classes together over the summer and we just connected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. I am very middling, replied the Lion, but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me. No, thank you, said the Fox. I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55036]]></link><description><![CDATA[If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34983]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor is it to promote the installation of a supermarket of religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50821]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11366</guid></item></channel></rss>