<?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[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193]]></link><description><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn outthat there are hundreds, thousands, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21312]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn outthat there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just aswe are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as weare, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28526</guid></item><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[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry and if you don't have a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic you might as well not show up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23248]]></link><description><![CDATA[By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn;  They will insure her constancy,   True friendship and fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36423]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) beat (the Palestinians) into submission in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36235]]></link><description><![CDATA[This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) beat (the Palestinians) into submission in accepting what (Israelis) want, or (Israel) will suspend the peace process and ... pursue a policy which is entirely anti-peace,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't about winning 55 or 60 games. It's about winning a title. That's what we were built for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't about winning 55 or 60 games. It's about winning a title. That's what we were built for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55300</guid></item></channel></rss>