<?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[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28891]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and to hold the ball on offense. The less possessions they had, the better off we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in this flower doth appear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our only hope is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28333]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our only hope is that we are able to defeat the constitution and start again with a government that truly represents the Iraqi people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I wish I would have changed the decision in the second. But, I did beat a lot of quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I wish I would have changed the decision in the second. But, I did beat a lot of quality kids that were ranked ahead of me all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such joy ambition finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such joy ambition finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47058]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;  Coelo Musa beat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17686]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a way for families to spend time together doing something creative. And when it's done, everybody will have created a memory they can take home with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item></channel></rss>