<?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[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44048]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38526]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35759]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He talks nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51803]]></link><description><![CDATA[He talks nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65543]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by reposing trust in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by reposing trust in each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not turn into goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the nature of women is closely allied to art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the nature of women is closely allied to art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66645]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down to execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662]]></link><description><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose andthen where are you?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66914]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the concepts of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item></channel></rss>