<?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[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no threats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44381]]></link><description><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hours trying to take this and make it into something funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59001</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 Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manufacturers printed a few more and the scarcity left the hobby. Very few cards printed in 1991 are valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manufacturers printed a few more and the scarcity left the hobby. Very few cards printed in 1991 are valuable today. They were mass-produced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3001]]></link><description><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions. The Housedog replied, Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others. Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58481]]></link><description><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31074]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped me out tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44925</guid></item></channel></rss>