<?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 continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king never dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</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[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,   Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should be assured that the products they are using are the most effective available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to revisit that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is remembering what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is remembering what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead Grays bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that and then all of a sudden you don't have him, it means you have to adjust. We're having trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our programs.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time creatively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time creatively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile presence for the group in North America that will complement Shangri - La's developments in Miami, Chicago and Vancouver. Guests at the Shangri - La Hotel, Las Vegas will experience a new brand of sophisticated hospitality - warm, distinctively Asian, with highly personalized service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61325</guid></item></channel></rss>