<?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[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How can you go to Phoenix and have a storm? Usually, you have to take tents to try and keep from burning up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54448]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13538]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just felt so bad for him ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ his year has been that way. He's had such strong cars in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just felt so bad for him ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ his year has been that way. He's had such strong cars in every race. I think he's probably had the strongest car over the year, but he's had the worst luck over the year. I just felt so bad when I saw that thing stall. I couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51606]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because those costs are considered discretionary and all we have to cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27251]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women'sCaucus boycott of Moses!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item></channel></rss>