<?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[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54970]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality should have no other nature than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality should have no other nature than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing   Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,    Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--     Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright      With tangled gossamer that fell by night,       Pearling his coronet of golden corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on the ground. We have offered our center and resources to the state of Texas ... There's a good clearinghouse in Austin (and) we have offered to assist them in any way we can...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52647]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that was my role. I made it to the NHL doing that. If I don't fight again in my life that doesn't mean I'm not a tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40825]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22221]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), we see a different side. There is a duality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to consolidate in the future,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he plays and the way he goes about his business that makes him our sparkplug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar   That gave the gods their wings.    . . . .     There throbs through all the worlds that are      This heart-beat not and strong,       And shaken systems, star by star,        Awake and glow in song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51751]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22366]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9900]]></link><description><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That outing had no effect on me today. My arm felt 100 percent. You're going to have a bad day every now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37339</guid></item></channel></rss>