<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   'Twill make your courage rise,    Twill make a man forget his wo;     'Twill heighten all his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him an inviting target for liberals and Democrats alike. It goes with the territory. He understands that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail,  When ladies dare to hear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51086]]></link><description><![CDATA[But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail,  When ladies dare to hear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20314]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30093]]></link><description><![CDATA[will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66809]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dancing days are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11022]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dancing days are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare of the people is the ultimate law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We started giving him some game time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can save your marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can save your marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very painful. I'm trying to keep a smile and not think about it, but give (Socorro) credit. They played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very painful. I'm trying to keep a smile and not think about it, but give (Socorro) credit. They played hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3800]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3800</guid></item></channel></rss>