<?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[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[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11380]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41516]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and obviously it didn't work and I think they will want to reexamine how they respond to disasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue adequately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49541]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It wasn't intentional. I was just playing hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1211]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but there are still some areas where we don't have agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's unlimited untapped potential for IBM,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be cool because I'm going to be the very first class to go there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be cool because I'm going to be the very first class to go there for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19546]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44369]]></link><description><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44369</guid></item></channel></rss>