<?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[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no forgiveness in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63335]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no forgiveness in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use this as a tool to look healthy, to look young, to look vibrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19278]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19667]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While a lot of African Americans and Latinos may have negative perceptions about the military, they can still identify with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39206]]></link><description><![CDATA[While a lot of African Americans and Latinos may have negative perceptions about the military, they can still identify with the strength of the soldier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58878]]></link><description><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with these forbidden made choice to rear   His mighty champion, strong above compare,    Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved the watches, ... When I design something and I love it myself, I know it's going to be big.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;   That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury--he has never done     With his delights, for when tired out with fun,      He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63581]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39433</guid></item></channel></rss>