<?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[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,   What hides the body oft the mind discovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108]]></link><description><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10528]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi  Vix ea nostra voco.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man's house is his castle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19616]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man's house is his castle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50783]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40076]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard in the off-season to get strong and have faster bat speed. And so far, it looks like we have more pop in the bat this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she stood there rests alone   Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.    Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away;     And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4608</guid></item></channel></rss>