<?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[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn,  And climbing for the prize, was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn,  And climbing for the prize, was torn,   And fouled my feet in quag-water;    And by the thorns and by the wind     The blossom that I took was thinn'd      And yet I found it sweet and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29867]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am dismayed by the party on March 13 held by members of the men's lacrosse team at an off-campus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am dismayed by the party on March 13 held by members of the men's lacrosse team at an off-campus residence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power which come from participation in eternal realities. But this new age cannot any more successfully live on religious faiths that are out of harmony with known truth, or that hang loose in the air, cut apart from the fundamental intellectual culture of the age. The hour has struck for the serious business of rediscovering the foundations, and of interpenetrating all life and thought with the truths and realities of a victorious religious faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men were living before Agamemnon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men were living before Agamemnon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51660]]></link><description><![CDATA[By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a community field and for the entire community and that's how we see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a community field and for the entire community and that's how we see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31747</guid></item></channel></rss>