<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Our business is to love what God would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Our business is to love what God would have us do. He wills our vocation as it is: let us love that, and not trifle away our time in hankering after other people's vocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the skies,   To him are open paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most meaningful growth was in diamond jewelry at higher price levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most meaningful growth was in diamond jewelry at higher price levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26221]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37056]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39417</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851]]></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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65837]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand   A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name     Mother of exiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37892]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for playing the game. You can do all the drills you want . . . you have to teach them technique but you have to put them in situations where they must use that technique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58033]]></link><description><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804]]></link><description><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er lesser powers that be;    But a mightier power and stronger     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65295]]></link><description><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65295</guid></item></channel></rss>