<?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[You are your choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are your choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36803]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5513]]></link><description><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to wait--   Where Beauty watched to imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38160]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that is truly worthy of debate. It's a call to action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered family,    Enlarger of the common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line of scrimmage and we need them to do that again to allow our linebackers to make plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old are in a second childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old are in a second childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's business is nobody's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's business is nobody's business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36710]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66719]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10206]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10206</guid></item></channel></rss>