<?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[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world    In me to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64911]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed  That knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed  That knows his rider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise   And very few to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's got an opportunity and he's taking advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeble body weakens the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeble body weakens the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are within God. God is within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item></channel></rss>