<?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[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2519]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6348]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace   Chalks successors their way, nor called upon    For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied     To eminent assistants, but spiderlike      Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note,       The force of his own merit makes his way,        A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys         A place next to the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44519]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beate the dog before the Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beate the dog before the Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:   As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44322]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. [Numb!2:23].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have invented the Thermometer style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126]]></link><description><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us of your shame.    Your banner's constellation types     White freedom with its stars,      But what's the meaning of the stripes?       They mean your negroes' scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. I don't think it matters who you play, in this situation, I think it's a great opportunity for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40368</guid></item></channel></rss>