<?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[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60378]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something else might have happened. I might not have put the ball in play. I'm comfortable where I am offensively, and I'm going to continue to spread the ball around the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27036]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is always on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are finding, more and more, children are isolated from nature. Going to the Laguna is a big deal for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it's like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39922]]></link><description><![CDATA[What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it's like to live in these places from the people who live there; because they would know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109   Those blessed ones of thine... shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109   Those blessed ones of thine... shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they shall love according as they shall know. How far they will know thee, Lord, then! and how much they will love thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three or four chances after shots like we were giving them, they are going to hit those shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one." [Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can plant a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can plant a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â 29 men and one woman ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â 29 men and one woman ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more Ihave of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22670</guid></item></channel></rss>