<?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[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62315]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,   Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell    The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714]]></link><description><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a legitimate grievance is seen in the intimate connection between hatred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52308]]></link><description><![CDATA[That hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a legitimate grievance is seen in the intimate connection between hatred and a guilty conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were excited. These are the types of games these guys grew up seeing our program be in at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as more of a process of, as you're coming into town, wanting people to stop and service our businesses, buy their gas and stuff like that. Once you come into town and get into high density growth and mini-stores it becomes more of a distraction and a nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29847]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26816]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will look as hollow as a ghost,   As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,    And so he'll die; and rising so again,     When I shall meet him in the court of heaven      I shall not know him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item></channel></rss>