<?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[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a cloud in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all that out there. God bless you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57058]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10948]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28079]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59162]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   To read or look upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918</guid></item></channel></rss>