<?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[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63412]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet mind cureth all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56292]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet mind cureth all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099]]></link><description><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was very popular last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33524]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was very popular last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids could be out like Whitney and not come to practice. But she would come from physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids could be out like Whitney and not come to practice. But she would come from physical therapy every day to practice and do what she could. ... She's the glue that holds us together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in the owner's box. This gives you an opportunity to prove you know football better than the pros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48329]]></link><description><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connors fought a great match. He was paired against a really tough opponent and held his ground. I can't really get down on our guys, because they showed great effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44906]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6114]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner:  Endowed perhaps with genius from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13254]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner:  Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods   But apt to take his temper from his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13254</guid></item></channel></rss>