<?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[You ride (eight seconds) or die in this sport, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39155]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ride (eight seconds) or die in this sport,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11491]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49402]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people" -- human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kind of says it all. Plus I think at least three or four (missed) lay-in opportunities where no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35996]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kind of says it all. Plus I think at least three or four (missed) lay-in opportunities where no one was on us (hurt us).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:   As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all is o'er,   A plunge, a bubble, and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32996]]></link><description><![CDATA[North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can you not offer them lower-cost options?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading Alps and archipelagoes,   And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5122]]></link><description><![CDATA[No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the underdog always and we like that. Even though we are the higher seed, we've proven nothing to Marquette ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the underdog always and we like that. Even though we are the higher seed, we've proven nothing to Marquette because they beat us pretty good when we played them. They have good size inside and we had no answers for (Andy) Miller inside the lane. They are very big and strong and we have our work cut out for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just going to do the things I've been doing, that's working hard and working on preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25326]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38433]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/273]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33662]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50785]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item></channel></rss>