<?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[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20902]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not going to take the liability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody really knew how this would be received in Israel. We were sure there would be protests, people saying, 'How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody really knew how this would be received in Israel. We were sure there would be protests, people saying, 'How can you show such a thing in Tel Aviv?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66523]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some tough ones to swallow. But we hung in there. We hung together as a team and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30261]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some tough ones to swallow. But we hung in there. We hung together as a team and it's paid off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will have to take new measures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56201]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one becomes perfect, but some become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46118]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one becomes perfect, but some become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penaltieshave been caused by.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penaltieshave been caused by.. depleted uranium 80 times the normal level.. which has generated cancer in Iraqis as well as Italian American and other troops . compulsory vaccines from the warprofiteeringpharmaco-military industrial complex. Lariam, ostensibly antimalarial drug made by Roche whichhave killed 4 wives whose husbands had drug caused rage.. heat rising to 137 degrees and melting soap as well asturning metal soda pop cans on a loading dock intochambers in which Nutra Sweet becomes more toxic. Baghdad Boils, face lesions, blamed on sand flies... food poisoning deaths from heat on military packagedmeals . ' friendly fire' . lack of protective gear . helicopter malfunctions in Chinook, Osprey and Black Hawk helicopters . underfunded hospital system . those hostile to the invaders and occupiers of their own Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408]]></link><description><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We controlled the match completely but after the break we took advantage and created space to score four goals, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We controlled the match completely but after the break we took advantage and created space to score four goals,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, perseverance, hard work and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love.Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, not months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted him to play. We thought we had a chance to have a decent team, and we knew he was a big part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item></channel></rss>