<?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[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66129]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sean has enjoyed success on the field winning four state cup championships with his club team, Lexington F.C. and winning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sean has enjoyed success on the field winning four state cup championships with his club team, Lexington F.C. and winning a championship with Dunbar High School. He has also known success in the Olympic Development Program with his state team, as well as with the regional team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25357]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23037]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla,  Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31116]]></link><description><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65268]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65268</guid></item></channel></rss>