<?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[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26693]]></link><description><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with signs of sorrow,   Despairing of his fee to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26693</guid></item><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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10315]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6463]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on... Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36183]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is not free that drawes his chaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49430</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49546]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure love produces pure nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure love produces pure nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13557]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37698]]></link><description><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57017</guid></item></channel></rss>