<?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[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40732]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51546]]></link><description><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports teams come for dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44220]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Well spielen  Ball mit dem Menschen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get home at 9 p.m. and you try to call your broker, is he going to be there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get home at 9 p.m. and you try to call your broker, is he going to be there? I don't think so. But your computer will be. It doesn't have a mortgage and it doesn't need to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around - and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41808</guid></item></channel></rss>