<?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[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se  Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29931]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many other schools have strong programs, too, but Rick Pillsbury's Casa Grande teams are exceptional. You can tell by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many other schools have strong programs, too, but Rick Pillsbury's Casa Grande teams are exceptional. You can tell by the way his students present themselves: They all dress properly, act appropriately and have resumes and other materials neatly typed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49542]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to hold up and threw the ball away and felt like just the biggest idiot alive at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study nature, not books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study nature, not books]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34979]]></link><description><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping;  And every happy growing thing  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping;  And every happy growing thing   Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,   As I do thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt   Shall for my legacy be sanctified    By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor     But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture      The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure       By such a day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10820]]></link><description><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to the people in the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item></channel></rss>