<?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[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30858]]></link><description><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62510]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?   What! panting recline on another than me?    Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,     From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;      What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63650]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  As we shared together our feelings about the study groups, we realised that we were not meeting together each week for an intellectual exercise: some thing very real and significant was taking place. We were coming to know that the Christian faith is not primarily an ethic; it is not the struggle to do good or be good, but an encounter with Christ, of which morality and ethical living are by-products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32977]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. I enjoyed it in the locker room afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth,  Place on you hand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth,  Place on you hand a Turquoise blue,   Success will bless whate'er you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50243]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32686]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52593]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra quel fiume,  Nel lungo suo cammino,   Se al fonte ancor vicino    E torbido cosi?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not putting the quarterback down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is certainly the best second team All-ACC player that I've seen. He has played super all year giving us a stabilizing, veteran presence in the middle of a young defensive line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and your right back. We did a lot of that stuff today and it worked well for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor is to be feared more than the disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor is to be feared more than the disease]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/259]]></link><description><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the namefor those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitationof captive expendable lab animals?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He touches nothing but he adds a charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He touches nothing but he adds a charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661</guid></item></channel></rss>