<?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[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to increase his or her certainty concerning the minimum level of toxin to use,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753]]></link><description><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick Williams, Justin King, Michael Robinson at quarterback. I'm anxious to see how that turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the yeere is, your pot must seeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49136]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</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[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129</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[When most I wink, then do my eyes best see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When most I wink, then do my eyes best see]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228]]></link><description><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32537]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,  Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57009]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16675]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I loved best... We used to read the lives of the Saints together. And when I read of the martyrdoms which they suffered for the love of God, I used to think that they had bought their entry into God's presence very cheaply. Then I fervently longed to die like them, not out of any conscious love for Him, but in order to attain, as quickly as they had, those joys which, as I read, are laid up in Heaven. I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs, and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, so that we might be beheaded there. I believe that our Lord had given us courage enough even at that tender age, if only we could have seen a way. But our parents seemed to us a very great hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45061</guid></item></channel></rss>