<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to stopThe circle in my brainAnything is better than youMaking me feel lame28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWhy should I be sorryI've had enough of youPlease forget my nameI'm runnin around on emptyStill tryin to get awayAnything to killThe consciousness of youAnything to end myselfBefore the thought of you28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesNow you'll know what it feels like to bite your tongueNow you'll know what it feels like to be the oneWho walks around with knots in your stomachI've been there, and I've done itAnd now you'll know what it feels likeTo always be afraidOf everything you wanted to sayWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWho's sorry now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the tournament goes from late August to early September.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190]]></link><description><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may delay, but time will not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may delay, but time will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are back to looking at the economy, corporate earnings, and unfortunately the continued saga of corporate shenanigans, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are back to looking at the economy, corporate earnings, and unfortunately the continued saga of corporate shenanigans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be no more hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,   The Cherub Contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3579</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar;  Around their home the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61706]]></link><description><![CDATA[When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar;  Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows,   No nourishment in frozen pasture grows;    Yet frozen pastures every morn resound     With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322</guid></item></channel></rss>