<?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[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13043]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long,  And the stormy winds do blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61639]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long,  And the stormy winds do blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260]]></link><description><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ween,   To see what is not to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53816]]></link><description><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq is an unjust war.(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..stated in articles written for NY Times.. printedin USA Today). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraq is an unjust war.(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..stated in articles written for NY Times.. printedin USA Today).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,   And on it put a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the "best possible" result in each separate instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been pushing instant messaging because it allows instant communication between people who are not necessarily available by other means, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39034]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been pushing instant messaging because it allows instant communication between people who are not necessarily available by other means,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807]]></link><description><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom Museum is designed to inspire people to understand and value their freedoms. The Freedom Museum will present freedoms in not merely a historical context, but in modern day examples, allowing people young and old to relate to modern day freedom debates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do a better job ourselves of kick coverage, punt protections and extra points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication   Which is more sober far than all sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolating the transportation budget and postponing action on it will only exacerbate the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isolating the transportation budget and postponing action on it will only exacerbate the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was a glimpse of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16520]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item></channel></rss>