<?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[Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains,  Men with empires in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains,  Men with empires in their purpose,   And new eras in their brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom and flexibility. If Iran doesn't help, Russia won't be able to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31469]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both well laden. The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear. He entreated his companion to relieve him of a small portion, that he might carry home the rest; but the Mule paid no attention to the request. The Ass shortly afterwards fell down dead under his burden. Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him. The Mule, groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: I am treated according to my deserts. If I had only been willing to assist the Ass a little in his need, I should not now be bearing, together with his burden, himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attended the event in Napa in July and it was amazing, so when we heard about this one, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attended the event in Napa in July and it was amazing, so when we heard about this one, we had to sign up. I'm going to keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder les oeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,   And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item></channel></rss>