<?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[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed to be leading to bail him out, You never want to call him dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are so swamped, I guess that they're not getting much of anything right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34364]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are so swamped, I guess that they're not getting much of anything right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12403]]></link><description><![CDATA[By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46730]]></link><description><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53289]]></link><description><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush  Modest as morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush  Modest as morning when she coldly eyes   The youthful Phoebus,    Which is that god in office, guiding men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11471]]></link><description><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38126]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb County now! We need that place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3792</guid></item></channel></rss>