<?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[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4249]]></link><description><![CDATA[That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41619]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,   Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56479]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's three words that describes baseball 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's three words that describes baseball 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a good team. The opportunities were definitely there. We got some great defensive stops, but we couldn't convert on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you, until the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55795]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45605</guid></item></channel></rss>