<?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[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is practically this, that where the Church and the Bible do not agree, we must prefer the Bible; that where authority and conscience appear to be rival guides, we shall be much safer in following conscience; and that where the letter and the spirit seem to be in conflict, the spirit is above the letter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:   Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality jobs and opportunities for its citizens versus quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can do for your mite.And remember, mite makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of bright spots this season. But when we execute, we can beat anyone. We could push ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of bright spots this season. But when we execute, we can beat anyone. We could push the bunt down exactly where we wanted to, and this was just total execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails;  I shall still Vicar be of Bray,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails;  I shall still Vicar be of Bray,   Whichever side prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries where we came from during International Day. We need to show our support and love for the U.S. on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34602]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day - and earn it,' was the cogent reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001</guid></item></channel></rss>