<?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[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721]]></link><description><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet   As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18167]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   That for an hermitage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53757]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40811]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46030]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2300]]></link><description><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761]]></link><description><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761</guid></item></channel></rss>