<?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 problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 legislators were commended for their conservative voting record. We appreciate those legislators who made Texas families their priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52011]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death,  But have belief that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death,  But have belief that every little breath   Will stay with you for an eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31131]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37375]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want their character to grow from opening night to closing night and find new things. We don't want to find that in a fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,  By swaggering could I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52939]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,  By swaggering could I never thrive,   For the rain it raineth every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connor flat out dominated. Only three balls were hit to the outfield today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connor flat out dominated. Only three balls were hit to the outfield today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22739]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid to make mistakes and sat back and watched things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17021]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48976]]></link><description><![CDATA[All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. Our freshmen have shown a lot of poise, but we lost two valuable guys to injury in the beginning of the year and you just can't replace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location, location, location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Location, location, location.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62297]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other home run, that was a legit home run. I hung that ball, and he kind of crushed it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other home run, that was a legit home run. I hung that ball, and he kind of crushed it on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37633</guid></item></channel></rss>