<?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 tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel in every smile a chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel in every smile a chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has afunction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has afunction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be right back here, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love none. We love, Fool, for the good we do,  Not that which unto us is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I feel tomorrow. I don't feel any pain or anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41921]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication between God and us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication between God and us but what is, on His part, in laws, commands, and promises; and an ours, by obedience performed in our strength and upon our convictions unto them. To exclude hence the real internal operations of the Holy Ghost, is to destroy the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk;  Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk;  Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item></channel></rss>