<?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 idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned   Sole monarch of the universal earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61586]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an attack on the democratic process and cannot be justified by any political cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39163]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568]]></link><description><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16285]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly settles down and the float looked good   But the trout refused it and there you stood    A dejected fly fisherman.     You looked things over and were not yet beat      Then changed flies again and were ready to repeat       The next try was poor because you rushed the cast        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17989]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played great the last 15 minutes [against Syracuse]. If we put that to 40 minutes, I'm sure another team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played great the last 15 minutes [against Syracuse]. If we put that to 40 minutes, I'm sure another team will get worn down and eventually fold. I'm pretty sure the four guys who have been through [the road to the Final Four] know how hard it is. They need to push me, Rudy, Marcus Williams, because they've been there. It's going to be a tough road, but I think we can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good finds good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good finds good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop using the word \'bromance.\' Can we please kill that stupid term? We\'re just friends. It\'s called friendship! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop using the word \'bromance.\' Can we please kill that stupid term? We\'re just friends. It\'s called friendship!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12618]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890</guid></item></channel></rss>