<?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[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally bring 20 to 30 paintings every year. It's become expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19225]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other transnational crimes will be made easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36227]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other transnational crimes will be made easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year could be like 1974, when Democrats picked up 44 seats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33406]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year could be like 1974, when Democrats picked up 44 seats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had hoped that Republicans would respond to the challenge. Instead what we've got is more than $2 million in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had hoped that Republicans would respond to the challenge. Instead what we've got is more than $2 million in these secret stealth campaigns that are attacking Democrats and attacking the vice president right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spots his pitches very well. It's also not uncommon for him to go out and throw four or five ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32221]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spots his pitches very well. It's also not uncommon for him to go out and throw four or five pitches and be out of the inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown. (on why he doesn't use a lonely end)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30102]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4216</guid></item></channel></rss>