<?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 easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,   Behold their tears and hear their cries!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think young players, in particular, see that, recognize, 'This is what the coaches want,' because we recognize that. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think young players, in particular, see that, recognize, 'This is what the coaches want,' because we recognize that. This is what the game's all about, this is how you go about the game. This is how you're supposed to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady said,   "Saints cannot taste in heaven."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805]]></link><description><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains level. and the continent,   Weary of solid firmness, melt itself    Into the sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate women's rights and welfare and the struggle to liberate women without denouncing this particular woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item></channel></rss>