<?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[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54938]]></link><description><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40373]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact be worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance in the culture of first-century Palestine was a hampering or distorting influence upon His teaching. Do we suppose that the scene of God's earthly life was selected at random? -- that some other scene would have served better?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27166]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62579]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8307]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to follow their fancies than his own. All the commerce of life is a perpetual constraint to the laws of good breeding, and the necessity of humoring others; and besides, our own passions are the worst tyrants: if you obey them but by halves, a perpetual strife and contest exists within; and if you entirely give up yourself to them, it is horrid to think to what extremities they will lead. May God preserve us from that fatal slavery, which the mad presumption of man calls liberty! Liberty is to be found only in Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21056]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will end up making some compromises, accommodations, as we get towards endgame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market's saunter into 2006 continues, with just a few remaining events before the champagne and confetti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market's saunter into 2006 continues, with just a few remaining events before the champagne and confetti.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bull I would have drawn didn't buck; it just ran. When it runs, you can't hold on, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bull I would have drawn didn't buck; it just ran. When it runs, you can't hold on,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3059]]></link><description><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13201]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13848</guid></item></channel></rss>