<?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[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. Interesting textures. Going back to classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad   When he put on his clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  Faith is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  Faith is not the holding of correct doctrines, but personal fellowship with the Living God... What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation is not truth concerning God but the Living God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38157]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5793]]></link><description><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,   Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28073]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17652]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness knew?   Life to destroy for fear to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolating the transportation budget and postponing action on it will only exacerbate the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isolating the transportation budget and postponing action on it will only exacerbate the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, it's a business trip for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, it's a business trip for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58911</guid></item></channel></rss>