<?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 true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394]]></link><description><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money begets money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money begets money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991]]></link><description><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed to trade closed-end funds. NASDAQ's electronic trading is efficient, translating into excellent retail investor access. And NASDAQ Market Makers are well qualified to address the nuances of trading closed-end funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not then in strictest reason clear,   Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted by scholarship whose conclusions have not been prescribed from the start, [the critical scholar] may be cast down but will not be destroyed. For he will know how temporary and mutable the conclusions of scholarship essentially are, and he will also be conscious that he himself may not have perfectly comprehended the Church's faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world    In me to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5796</guid></item></channel></rss>