<?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[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Judo is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers knock each other down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Judo is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers knock each other down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if you connive enough. It doesn't surprise me you can get other people's cell phone bills for a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed  That knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed  That knows his rider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are generated, ... The victimized population wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are generated, ... The victimized population wants revenge. There's a breakdown of trust in your fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354</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[One mouth doth nothing without another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including those things that other people are certain are impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40446]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. It's lasted about 30 years longer than I expected it to. But it's all worked out pretty well and I'm glad I decided to stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21165]]></link><description><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals Himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand drawing me, leading me, grasping me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28634]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of good things going for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.Someone to love, something to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21722]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book... No, here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book... No, here was a sequence of great character and emancipated spirit, all attached to and explained by such a personality as the world never saw; and the central doctrine of the risen Christ squared with the rationality and the goodness of God... The wise said that God and the godlike could have no contact with suffering, but Jesus was no phantom feigning to be crucified; he truly suffered on the cross, he truly rose. Suffering is a language all can understand, and none can quite exhaust; and the suffering Christ, victorious over pain and death, meant for all who grasped his significance a new faith in God, a new freedom of mind in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927</guid></item></channel></rss>