<?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[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28992]]></link><description><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctionsbetween flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time andmatter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so longforgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul isnothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life ofevery woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20724]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay in front so I just made sure to keep the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45367]]></link><description><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We may choose the pace    Who bow for grace,     At the Inn of the Silver Moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;   The horse doth with the horseman run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never say don't get 100 or let's get 100. Whatever happens, happens. I just want our kids to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never say don't get 100 or let's get 100. Whatever happens, happens. I just want our kids to play hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33211]]></link><description><![CDATA[But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol abuse, the public are generally unaware of the scale of the fatalities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850</guid></item></channel></rss>