<?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 rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm focused on going out and competing and winning a starting job. My mindset has to be that next level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm focused on going out and competing and winning a starting job. My mindset has to be that next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Marquis Jets, we carefully vet our partners to ensure that we only align ourselves with the finest brands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39849]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Marquis Jets, we carefully vet our partners to ensure that we only align ourselves with the finest brands, and Grand Isle Villas provides the comfort and service that our owners have come to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, frankly, I had a very good feeling the last few days. I had a very positive feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, frankly, I had a very good feeling the last few days. I had a very positive feeling thinking things will go all right. I'm thrilled that it came to this end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38714]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the floor and we were able to do that tonight. But one thing we didn't do was take advantage of our height. We will need to do a better job of that against Perryville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are some of the poorest countries with the weakest health indicators in the world. People are pretty cynical when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30806]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are some of the poorest countries with the weakest health indicators in the world. People are pretty cynical when they look at Africa, but these countries have turned it around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's power to thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17649]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on;  A heavenly race demands thy zeal,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on;  A heavenly race demands thy zeal,   And an immortal crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4942]]></link><description><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56108</guid></item></channel></rss>