<?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 universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He talks nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51803]]></link><description><![CDATA[He talks nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31109]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and paths in parks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to preserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent crime, and as a result they did not renew it in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15154]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17565]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978]]></link><description><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50872</guid></item></channel></rss>