<?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[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60080]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6883]]></link><description><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth   Some monstrous malefactor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1862]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10244]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is undone and God wants you to focus on it before travelling on your desired path. Everything has its own time. Follow your conscience and don't forget your priorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!     They pass      Unheeded by:       And as they fly,        I,         Being dry,          Sit, idly sipping here           My beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32625]]></link><description><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone   Tell where I lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health on sea nor shore shall fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ready to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but that was a hell of a deal. That's not something you see on your average recruiting trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47573]]></link><description><![CDATA[We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports anytime soon. We've had very warm weather this winter and have built gasoline supplies despite refiners operating at reduced rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108]]></link><description><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item></channel></rss>