<?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 object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all   Where pity is, for pity makes the world    Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29809]]></link><description><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to the enemy's doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44416]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest forget   That he himself is not the host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59304]]></link><description><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try to lead by example when at all possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had been nominated for best actor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled   Its waves of emerald and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48820]]></link><description><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855</guid></item></channel></rss>