<?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[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116]]></link><description><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44865]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23375]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/242]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding,    And applauding,     Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25176]]></link><description><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income areas, have more adults in their life. All of these things add up to better lives, safer lives, better schools and communities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46030]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, but I feel pretty bad about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12014]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52343]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36153]]></link><description><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems with their size all weekend. The one key difference was their size because we got out-strength a little bit. I thought we had five to eight scoring chances thwarted by them because they we just stronger than us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36153</guid></item></channel></rss>