<?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[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't throw with great technique and rely more on athleticism and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794]]></link><description><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47589]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or filmed entertainment, the protection of intellectual property is crucial. If we can't build businesses around ideas, and feel comfortable that we have the right to those ideas, then our entire business is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior college, and they offered me a scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39189]]></link><description><![CDATA[I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.) [Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's even more special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory,   But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride    At length broke under me, and now has left me,     Weary and old with service, to the mercy      Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36890]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University that Hatch has little chance of winning.] I'm sorry to see (Hatch) make a fool of himself, ... He's a good man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of the judge's finding that he takes the proposal seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39999</guid></item></channel></rss>