<?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[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's wreck,   Shone round him o'er the dead.    . . . .     The flames roll'd on--he would not go      Without his Father's word;       That father, faint in death below,        His voice no longer heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</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[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11865]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47177]]></link><description><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56313]]></link><description><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that was my role. I made it to the NHL doing that. If I don't fight again in my life that doesn't mean I'm not a tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item></channel></rss>