<?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[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, so all that cash is sitting in their pockets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36558</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[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30392]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28580]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33170]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the industry and their methods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29965]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had about 2 or 3 thousand come today, ... Everybody can come out, have a good time and listen to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for my third strike for those first three batters I struck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for life or a lesson for life!!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59844</guid></item></channel></rss>