<?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[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748]]></link><description><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700]]></link><description><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening towards active assistance, is simply bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55949]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At land indeed Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house:  But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10812]]></link><description><![CDATA[At land indeed Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house:  But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,   Remain in't as thou mayst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sound blow will serve to undo us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49698]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sound blow will serve to undo us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The PA Interior Ministry is playing the role of the ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The PA Interior Ministry is playing the role of the]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories that I've experienced in golf,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the reasons the Council originally objected to the Landmark project was that the applicant did not provide a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36871]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the reasons the Council originally objected to the Landmark project was that the applicant did not provide a shoring plan indicating how the hillside would be stabilized during the excavation. A shoring plan is still not available. If they start excavating they could trigger a slide. With temporary shoring we could at least know how they are going to hold that hill up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40114]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see we have made some progress on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692</guid></item></channel></rss>