<?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[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25974]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  And in the calling, let him nothing call,   But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution is set up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919]]></link><description><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,  And kindles into fragrance at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,  And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160]]></link><description><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42266]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early. Our offense was very stagnant today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34055]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in here. We don't want to become a casino.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time, ... We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19215]]></link><description><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader. I expect to be calling Mr. Naughton directly as I always have in the past. If she wants to know what I'm doing, she can always call me. I'll be happy to respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half thecreeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21920]]></link><description><![CDATA[There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half thecreeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980</guid></item></channel></rss>