<?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[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's always been a problem with parking down here. I always said there are more cars then there are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's always been a problem with parking down here. I always said there are more cars then there are people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that measures not himselfe, is measured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that measures not himselfe, is measured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missouri voters really aren't sure what's going on with the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Missouri voters really aren't sure what's going on with the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988]]></link><description><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all these bigger schools helps us out even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in a marriage like that. And I'm not saying that it's right that women at the time had no choice but to stay in the home and raise kids, but at the same time, I wanted to celebrate the fact that she was a deeply intelligent, insightful, strong woman who found joy in that situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails,  Like kittens playing with their tails.   [Ger., Mit wenig Witz und viel Behagen    Dreht jeder sich im engen Zirkeltanz     Wie junge Katzen mit dem Schwanz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51586]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42171]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would expect them to be almost at their maximum weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43223]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've got some young guys and we'll see. But we're bringing back three guys (in the infield) who've played there for three years and a guy who's a junior-college transfer who has experience at the college level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap  And buffet round the hills from bluff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap  And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7759</guid></item></channel></rss>