<?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[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive reaction to good corporate earnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564]]></link><description><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;   But faint the flagging zephyr springs,    With dry Macadam on its wings,     And turns me "dust to dust."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going to give in to the persecution to which they are subjected,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29317</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[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,   Fair child!--it was the bliss within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24870]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,   Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet .. frog's legs ...the frogs now had no legs chicken's thighs... the chickens now had no thighs lamb's ribs .. the lamb now had no ribs turkey's breasts.. the turkey's chest was carved sheep's eyes which watched the devourers calf brains which contained Mad Cow and God sent angels to wipe all violence from the earth from this day forth © S N Shriver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to me to have come for a frank and direct translation of the Greek New Testament into our modern spoken American English. We take great pains to provide Asiatica and Africana with special versions, so that they may read the Bible each in his own tongue wherein he was born; and why not do as much for our young people, and our fellow citizens generally?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that is not madness is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count my many blessings.Today, I will do my work honestly.Today, I will be kind to every living creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40945]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a small school, we don't have to follow the mold of other schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20937]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which seizes   The trusting bosom, when betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10725</guid></item></channel></rss>