<?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 leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31063]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For A Super Mind. It Is The Greatest Source Of Knowledge To Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am dismayed by the party on March 13 held by members of the men's lacrosse team at an off-campus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am dismayed by the party on March 13 held by members of the men's lacrosse team at an off-campus residence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of life is determined by its activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,   Knows the high art of what and how to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48182]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1206]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786]]></link><description><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25554</guid></item></channel></rss>