<?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[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the assets are there. Now it's just a matter of getting the product to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the assets are there. Now it's just a matter of getting the product to the people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23925]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent every second he's on the field. He leads by example and plays with a tremendous amount of intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25612]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden suffering;    And then, to go to sleep;     And then, if it should be      The will of its Inquisitor,       The liberty to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15680]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I still got paid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is history but a fable agreed upon? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is history but a fable agreed upon?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</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[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and I against any two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and I against any two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4058]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12462</guid></item></channel></rss>