<?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[Life without the courage for death is slavery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Ad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748]]></link><description><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to her--above her fan   She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59952]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special corner of the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33766]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groping for trouts in a peculiar river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944]]></link><description><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41235]]></link><description><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like pollution and overpopulation. And they still offer us a tremendous escape. They're really just luscious paintings. There's nothing that can substitute for art that is about sensuality and beauty, and that's what we're offering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the game was lost in the (third) when we gave up five runs, then two more in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the game was lost in the (third) when we gave up five runs, then two more in the fourth. I think, if we had shut them down or held them to one or two runs, they probably wouldn't have been as aggressive as they were. But they can swing the bats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64495]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item></channel></rss>