<?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[Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very pleased with today's wave of signings. Salim and Jacobi will add strength and speed to the defense for 2006; Drew and Oral will add some flair and character to our attacking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's not over yet. Everybody's like, 'Oh! Take my studded tires off!' And I'm like, 'I wouldn't take studded tires off quite yet,' and here it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39521]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students out of the way because the AC unit is leaking on one side of the class. I saw a teacher move a row of kids over because water was leaking on one side of the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little kids out in that kind of weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think also what people really should try to keep in mind is, when a hit and run occurs, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think also what people really should try to keep in mind is, when a hit and run occurs, there is a lack of closure on an incident like this, people don't really have a sense of what happened and what lead to this - from a justice standpoint or from a personal standpoint- we're trying to help the family to try and understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9976]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to set the pace. With about six kilometers to go Carlos hit a bad patch and instead of risking a total meltdown, he made the sensible choice to ride at his own pace and he did actually manage to limit his time loss quite well. The other day Carlos was a bit better than Mancebo and today it was the other way round. The time differences are still very small. The way it looks right now Heras and Menchov are the strongest. But there's almost two full weeks left and a lot can happen in that time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194]]></link><description><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do a lot of showboating on the field. He just played the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200]]></link><description><![CDATA["Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13753]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry in particular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35014</guid></item></channel></rss>