<?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[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we'd try something a little bit different. But also, in deference to our fans that do drive quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we'd try something a little bit different. But also, in deference to our fans that do drive quite a ways, it gives them a chance to get here and get home an hour earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's cause,   And bide by the buff and the blue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18129]]></link><description><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60128]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16676]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a little thing a little displeaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a little thing a little displeaseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25914]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, that's the ticket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, that's the ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at Yale. His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begone about your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begone about your business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small things become the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small things become the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item></channel></rss>