<?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[Death to all fanatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like that. We made a conscious decision for him to be there to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Administration’s willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen – less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Administration’s willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen – less likely to trust or take anything that is said in Washington seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66898]]></link><description><![CDATA[To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53670]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. [Matthew].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37089]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13949]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to the other. He always seems to be in good position. He's a guy who would rather pass than shoot. He's done exactly what I thought he would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a couple of posts with good size that kind of helped diminish some of her effectiveness against us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a couple of posts with good size that kind of helped diminish some of her effectiveness against us, but she definitely has some talent. (Brown's) biggest thing is her aggressiveness and athleticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4103]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf   Came I to crouch, as I conceive.    Dame Nature doubtless has designed     A man the monarch of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item></channel></rss>