<?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[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went up a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28403]]></link><description><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like to thank and congratulate the many law enforcement bodies who worked so hard over such a long period of time to find the individuals who are allegedly responsible for the shocking Vail arson in 1998.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4504]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything else. We are not interested in creating a lot of stacking. We are protecting the investment our current partners have made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</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[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65648]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23768]]></link><description><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3115]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</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[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22894]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491</guid></item></channel></rss>