<?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[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684]]></link><description><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40173]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10151]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be vice as long as there are men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be vice as long as there are men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which way the goalies' lean and he can shoot with both feet. Off the ball he makes great runs. For me, around the goal he's one of the best finishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids are succeeding in the regular classroom with accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash of color beneath the sky:    Hats off!     The flag is passing by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27841]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higherand greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by aforce and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confidentand free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves tobe taken over by our unquestioning self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369</guid></item></channel></rss>