<?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[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43193]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,  Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52436]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the 'Nutcracker?' Is this evidence of a stronger public reaction against their decision than they are willing to admit?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11832]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;   So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be missing for at least four to six weeks. It's a big blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be missing for at least four to six weeks. It's a big blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciousness: That annoying time between naps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciousness: That annoying time between naps]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765]]></link><description><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:   A village like an instinct left to rust,    Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here;  The daisy, fresh from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here;  The daisy, fresh from nature's sleep,   Tells of His hand in lines as clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42190]]></link><description><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15302]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item></channel></rss>