<?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[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;   Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. But that's no excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du sage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as much as we usually do. We wanted to make it a point to go inside out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55888]]></link><description><![CDATA[That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But great individual talent isn't what wins games in the NBA. The guys have to all be on the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31927]]></link><description><![CDATA[But great individual talent isn't what wins games in the NBA. The guys have to all be on the same page to win. I'm not sure they had that last season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes you get in and sometimes you don't. But the judges do the best they can. If they saw something that kept me out of the top three, I have to respect that and keep working on my riding. All I can do is improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64352]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36557]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the mother of all credit expansions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item></channel></rss>