<?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[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church really generates the largest amount of traffic other than the people who cut through at optimum times. On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church really generates the largest amount of traffic other than the people who cut through at optimum times. On Sunday, there are certain times you wouldn't want to leave your house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply filing the motion doesn't change anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply filing the motion doesn't change anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48329]]></link><description><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, I think Hilton has clearly put a wrench in the process by offering $70 per share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, I think Hilton has clearly put a wrench in the process by offering $70 per share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special session, they're going to be down on the Capitol steps telling us to get out of there!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359</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[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not help us move forward. We were trying not to use the celebrations as a kind of challenge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not help us move forward. We were trying not to use the celebrations as a kind of challenge. Political dialogue has to be the main tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481]]></link><description><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. [Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been a sucker for attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been a sucker for attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. It's an unbelievable accomplishment for Jamie to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62351]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62351</guid></item></channel></rss>