<?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[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196]]></link><description><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We anticipate that people will need immediate housing, a safe place. But we're under the impression the need will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We anticipate that people will need immediate housing, a safe place. But we're under the impression the need will be temporary -- days, weeks. It's the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15779]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will help. But one good year doesn't pull you out of a drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30686]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will help. But one good year doesn't pull you out of a drought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? We have lots of reasons to exercise, so perhaps this is another reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good test to see how we respond, and see if we can beat them for a third time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. - Wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. - Wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' unfeeling for his own.    Yet ah! why should they know their fate,     Since sorrow never comes too late,      And happiness too swiftly flies?       Thought would destroy their paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item></channel></rss>