<?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[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50443]]></link><description><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51157]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted,  Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee,  Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me  Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking,  God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us:  Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness,  Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather,  Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure,  Jesus, priceless treasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately now it is over for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. There's been a slow build, but we're playing for a lot more people, and the kids seem to know the new songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763]]></link><description><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots all; for be it understood   We left our country for our country's good.    No private views disgraced our generous zeal,     What urged our travels was our country's weal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are still going to pay for maintenance, but the CRC is in charge of operating the facility. They check people's BuzzCard, maintain the facility, and check for non-marking shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the things I might have said that fester. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the things I might have said that fester.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48509]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4589</guid></item></channel></rss>