<?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[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is a common misperception that has perpetuated over time that you must be an art or writing major, but this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22306]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19926]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did something to me that traumatized my life, and I'm never going to forgive him for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29967]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did something to me that traumatized my life, and I'm never going to forgive him for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, but it is not his wish that he who is free in Christ should be bound by them. He does not condemn the law of works if only one uses it lawfully. Without these things perhaps you will not be pious; but they do not make you pious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.rnZig Ziglar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17687]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38561]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to have an effect on the child. Children and parents have a more satisfying experience and fewer children need to be sedated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is a relief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is a relief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41397]]></link><description><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit goes his way, I think it can happen for him this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed. Because what is going on that a senator doesn't act according to script, acts according to conscience, and everybody is taken aback?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread a city to the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are designated as entrances to residence halls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item></channel></rss>