<?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[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37850]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23516]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761]]></link><description><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25791]]></link><description><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51462]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3993]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose principle of differentiation is to be sought in their conformity to the order of social classes and castes. It would not be true to affirm that the denominations are not religious groups with religious purposes; but it is true that they represent the accommodation of religion to the caste system. They are emblems, therefore, of the victory of the world over the church, of the secularization of Christianity, of the church's sanction of that divisiveness which the church's gospel condemns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where words fail, music speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where words fail, music speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they were outclassed they kept coming back and never gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29861</guid></item></channel></rss>