<?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[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19384]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental in what was accomplished last season and now is their time to shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17139]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols ofhuman failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21797]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols ofhuman failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat,   In adoration of the setting sun,    Chants forth his evening hymn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling that? Who's running the damn place when you're using peacekeepers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;   Till then in patience our proceeding be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pool) is a fun, competitive sport that anyone can compete in. It's easy to learn stuff, and most players are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38527]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pool) is a fun, competitive sport that anyone can compete in. It's easy to learn stuff, and most players are willing to teach you anything they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37816]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up the strong tradition of Wake Forest hockey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much matter decocted into few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much matter decocted into few words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35203]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children and had made a conscious decision to chose a lifestyle without (other people's) children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49624</guid></item></channel></rss>