<?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[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24670]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42606]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072]]></link><description><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. -Garrison Keillor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you???? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624]]></link><description><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still to ourselves in every place consigned,   Our own felicity we make or find.    With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,     Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40884]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52310]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm OK. This time of year everyone has some bumps and bruises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm OK. This time of year everyone has some bumps and bruises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to have a sense of place, an identity as a destination, and that's what these signs are designed to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... I was pointing at the Memphis TV guys. They was talking trash, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns,   Ere sunset all is snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community service is a big part of scouting and this is a good project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community service is a big part of scouting and this is a good project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry   Along the waves dost thou fly?    Oh! rather, bird, with me     Through this fair land rejoice!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468</guid></item></channel></rss>