<?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[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music tells no truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music tells no truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They long to be / Close to you / On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37848]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the impetus for fundraising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 points,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig you.. in summer he'll summon a jade garbto resprig you.. and in the fallon patient twigswith fresh fruit he'll refig you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9023]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We showed something by keeping the pressure on Houston the last four games. This team really came together. Guys really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We showed something by keeping the pressure on Houston the last four games. This team really came together. Guys really pick each other up. We believed in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do with this movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it's a better life. The good news is there is room for a second and a third Dubai, just like there was room for a second Singapore in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21366</guid></item></channel></rss>