<?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[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34472]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27947]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35187]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant lines combined with intelligent functionality. Every single detail has been designed with a firm focus on the user's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year good record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the beginning of all vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/493]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and reason strong,   For his advantage still did wake and sleep.    To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,     He had the dialect and different skill,      Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3132]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16460]]></link><description><![CDATA[In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3440]]></link><description><![CDATA[To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19743]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39779]]></link><description><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise energy-efficiency standards for common appliances calls out for prompt action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57280</guid></item></channel></rss>