<?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[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses... who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn would pass on to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater  It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen   We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in prison and then thrown back on the street and have no training for anything they go right back into the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42578]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects. They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37552]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects. They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988]]></link><description><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night rebounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36957]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. He is the ideal person for this position, and I am thrilled to welcome David to Bremer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868]]></link><description><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47432]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the same mentality. We just have to get the job done. It's one thing to say and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the same mentality. We just have to get the job done. It's one thing to say and another to do it. [But] that's our job. If we're running the ball, we've got to open up holes. If we're passing the ball, we've got to make sure Bones doesn't get touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blynde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   Bright prototypes on high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11539]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2429]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47423]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item></channel></rss>