<?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[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45546]]></link><description><![CDATA[That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of snow,   Dirtier than the ground below,    Dribbles down a marshy flood;     Ankle-deep you stick in mud      In the meadows while you sing,       "This is Spring."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles and tactics while conducting illegal activity in border areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's crazy and it just got crazier, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's crazy and it just got crazier,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. They're selling the belief that their drug is superior, but they're not marketing superior drugs. If they want to improve the public's perception of their work, then they better improve their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52493]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found that to be a very successful recruiting tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found that to be a very successful recruiting tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10429]]></link><description><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central Labor Council meeting) someone reported that a union took a wage freeze but kept their health insurance. Today that's a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since the days of the old regime.    And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,     I'd give--though it might seem bold--      A hundred years of the Golden Age       For a year of the Age of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great almes-giving lessens no mans living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bid the devil take the hin'most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12139]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bid the devil take the hin'most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4110]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in a peal, one and all,   For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare.  A blue trip slip for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare.  A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,   A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,    A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,     Punch in the presence of the passenjare!      Punch, brothers! punch with care!       Punch in the presence of the passenjare!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17945</guid></item></channel></rss>