<?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 Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19926]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's impressed. He continues to take steps forward in his development, and we're excited about the progress he's made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's impressed. He continues to take steps forward in his development, and we're excited about the progress he's made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4191]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Arad says the recent reinvigoration of Batman and DC Comics' upcoming slate of Superman and Wonder Woman movies doesn't scare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29749]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Arad says the recent reinvigoration of Batman and DC Comics' upcoming slate of Superman and Wonder Woman movies doesn't scare him.] You know what we are? ... We're the best storytellers you'll find. And to us, our characters are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,   She feels it instantly on every side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57371</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[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28534]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50268]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a blast. It was very intense and every game was a must-win game. I would do it again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a blast. It was very intense and every game was a must-win game. I would do it again if asked and almost every player I have talked to from different nations would come back again. It was terrific chemistry and I'm thankful I got the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50190]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This jury issue is certainly going to be a very significant part of the appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28728]]></link><description><![CDATA[This jury issue is certainly going to be a very significant part of the appeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;   He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;--    So John P.     Robinson, he      Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund improvements to a roadway that has not been on any kind of planned improvement list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately now it is over for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws   And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.   Some may perchance, with strange surprise,    Have blundered into Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47753]]></link><description><![CDATA[For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5294</guid></item></channel></rss>