<?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[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that it is quitepossible that you are whatyou say you are, you maywant to consider watchingyour thoughts.When you watch them,you are likely to findthat - just like littlechildren - they can, and do,play tricks on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favour to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51468]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been absolutely wonderful, really uplifting. In an odd way, the fire sent a message to our company about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been absolutely wonderful, really uplifting. In an odd way, the fire sent a message to our company about getting better organized and getting things under better control, in one place. But the generosity we've encountered has allowed us to bounce back quickly. We're ready for a new season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. If you are going to conduct business today, that is the model you will see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28171]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just trying to get out of their way. They hit the back of my car, fishtailed and then they rolled it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first possession. But we gave away scoring opportunities and we didn't even score at all in the third quarter. It was a good season but we ran out of gas tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this is not illegal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30683]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip away all season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35558</guid></item></channel></rss>