<?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[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: if the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content to follow when we lead the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content to follow when we lead the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister  Ire viam qua monstret eques.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air,  To be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44065]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air,  To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,   Necessity's sharp pinch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44048]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new and different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,So I'm all of the love that could make it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it'll be viewed as positive action. It might create buyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it'll be viewed as positive action. It might create buyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14213]]></link><description><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18180</guid></item></channel></rss>