<?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[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping Georgia will be able to stop them or do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32187]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping Georgia will be able to stop them or do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low,  'Tis that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low,  'Tis that I can't remember how   They go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, you'll see at last;To feel that love, it makes you sigh,To have it leave, you'd rather die;You hope you've found that special rose,'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess   That the defect; better the more than less;    Better like Hector in the field to die,     Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is another word for indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is another word for indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7786]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on the same page with all of us. Just like Pedro [Martinez]. Pedro was used to doing his own thing, but you win 15 to 20 games every year, you've earned the respect of your teammates, and nobody is going to [complain] about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22689</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[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never forgive those who make us blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never forgive those who make us blush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking about is how do you find one person, among 20-some million in Iraq, who has the ability to move. That's very difficult, but that's the war we're in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaither came in ranked nationally so we came out here tonight like we had nothing to lose. So instead of being uptight, we just came out relaxed and played our game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919</guid></item></channel></rss>