<?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[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8643]]></link><description><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,   When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1836]]></link><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main objective is to keep traffic moving efficiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth the broads are blind as bats, stumblin through - the systemJustice bumped into M'Tulu, trippin on Geronimo Prattbut stepped right over Oliver and his crooked partner RonnieJustice stubbed her big toe on MandelaAnd Liberty was misquoted by the IndiansSlavery was just a learning phase, forgotten without a verdictwhile Justice is on a rampagefor endangered survivin black malesI mean really; if anyone REALLY valued lifeand cared about the massesThey'd take 'em both to Pen Opticaland get TWO pairs of glassesExcuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesI'm kickin asses up and down New York CityIt's a pityBrothers wanna be grimy and gritty to each otherWhat would your mother think, smotherin your brother?I see you sink, into another levelDancin with the devilTurn up the bass, cause I'm player; also a rhyme sayerKind of fly, layer after layerWhy.. cause I'm blessedCause I've progressedI've learned my lessonsClass has always been in session, so you better take notesAnd stop chokin on negativity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is why Bush at this time made this kind of statement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is why Bush at this time made this kind of statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be vice as long as there are men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be vice as long as there are men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see how he would have received a great education here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see how he would have received a great education here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use it or lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use it or lose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we can, as a nation, step into the bright light of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is more vulnerable to Islam than the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27470]]></link><description><![CDATA[War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8216]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone -- which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51538]]></link><description><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51538</guid></item></channel></rss>