<?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[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in confusion in regard to their scales of values and priorities. Many honest Christian people experience the shock of a revelation when they are brought to realize that their membership of the Church constitutes a loyalty prior to their loyalty to the nation to which they belong. Patriotism is one of the powerful underground pseudo-religions of to-day, not merely nationalism. The fundamental notion that the Christians are a "peculiar people" that never is identical, or even can be, with a people in the biological, national sense of the word, is largely asleep. It can only become awake by a new grasp of the biblical truth that the Church is the "people of God", an elect race composed of people out of all nations, transcending all nations and races.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bart is a tremendously talented individual with an exceptional intellect, coupled with a strong work ethic and a healthy dollop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bart is a tremendously talented individual with an exceptional intellect, coupled with a strong work ethic and a healthy dollop of grounded common sense. He brings another well-needed executive dimension to our management team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58604]]></link><description><![CDATA[But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5596]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35083]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional actors' and must therefore respect their members' freedom of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48722]]></link><description><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University at home is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32375]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University at home is huge for us. We are playing seven teams that appeared in the NCAA tournament which creates a great schedule for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two years. We weren't in existence two years ago. We didn't have all those officers. Those phone calls are slowing down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,   Nor looks to see the breaking day    Across the mournful marbles play!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. It much would please him   That of his fortunes you should make a staff    To lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rockby Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/261]]></link><description><![CDATA[70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rockby Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life   To feel all feeling die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805]]></link><description><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nae man can tether time nor tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nae man can tether time nor tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668</guid></item></channel></rss>