<?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[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46014]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being satisfied that we have found the holy, are we justified in submitting to its guidance. The duty of following truth at all hazards is not altered, and it is only a false wisdom and prudence which shuns the search. The one chief reason why so much more may be revealed to babes than to the wise and prudent is still simply that, with less calculation and prejudice, they entirely abandon themselves to the leading of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is force, legalized plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is force, legalized plunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it easy. Let the women and children go first ... No one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is not the gas supply, it's the power outages, ... There's no gas shortage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is not the gas supply, it's the power outages, ... There's no gas shortage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up because insurers' investment returns had been decreasing, and auto and property loss had increased. But this is going to accelerate that process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,   That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown,  For the Christian riles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown,  For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles,   And it weareth the Christian down.    And the end of the fight is a tombstone white     With the name of the late deceased--      And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here       Who tried to hustle the East."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49423</guid></item><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[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path to the Mideast is litteredwith Nobel peace laureateswho have not yet achievedwhat can only be achieved ineach heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path to the Mideast is litteredwith Nobel peace laureateswho have not yet achievedwhat can only be achieved ineach heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49071]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not exactly a guy who invites the limelight, and he's not a showboat. He's really rather shy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33255]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not exactly a guy who invites the limelight, and he's not a showboat. He's really rather shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon Zoo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was able to go to Iraq.. to the place my son died..and fill my promise to my wife to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was able to go to Iraq.. to the place my son died..and fill my promise to my wife to put a crucifix onthe spot.. and bring home some of the blooddrenched dirt..and plant a white rose bush in itMilitary Families Speak Out.. broadcast on C Span.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29750]]></link><description><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44742]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55420</guid></item></channel></rss>