<?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[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm not a crook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm not a crook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29792]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in spite of the blackouts by your media, are only the losses of the initial clashes. ... You will soon experience horrors that will make you forget the horrors you have encountered in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47160]]></link><description><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35279]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an adult can relate to that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the East   And to implore your light he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item></channel></rss>