<?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[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand the court's review. So they retreated, making it a private handshake deal between the two of them. As a result, it won't be enforceable in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, no thought could be had of a permanent structure for gatherings. This would only facilitate matters for the Roman government in its merciless persecutions. The early Church was very conscious of its pilgrim character in a world which was at enmity with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of our basketball team tonight. After getting beat like we did on Saturday, to come back tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of our basketball team tonight. After getting beat like we did on Saturday, to come back tonight with the focus and intensity that we needed to was really big for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ I'm excited for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42662]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35736]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible to avoid any war in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27602]]></link><description><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just kept pushing me around. At times, it seemed more like a football game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just kept pushing me around. At times, it seemed more like a football game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose lightest word   Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,    Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,     Thy knotted and combined locks to part,      And each particular hair to stand on end       Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1937]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23065]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item></channel></rss>