<?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[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks to rise to God; and there is no road that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15767]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361]]></link><description><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32621]]></link><description><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212]]></link><description><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721]]></link><description><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43037]]></link><description><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item></channel></rss>