<?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[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44823]]></link><description><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</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[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,  Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,  Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell   The coming of storms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750]]></link><description><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1417]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35002]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so cheap now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail? ... Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to an end. We had a team meeting and the girls are pretty determined to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29299]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to an end. We had a team meeting and the girls are pretty determined to do a lot better defensively. Against Deer Park, we scored 69 points. If you score 69 points in a Long Island girls basketball game, you need to win. That said, I congratulated his kids after the game. They played a great game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is.Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is.Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that couldsupport life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100million planets that harbored life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62200]]></link><description><![CDATA[After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42920</guid></item></channel></rss>