<?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 is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin   (Friends of the party) who begin accusals,    Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen     Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals      To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,       Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. -Koran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being such a smile;   The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly    From so divine a temple to commix     With winds that sailors rail at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. I didn't really have anyone to hang out with. I was a golfing machine. I'd play, I'd eat, I'd go back to a private house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can stop the egg eating by macho Mexicans, we can save thousands of turtles. If you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36588]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can stop the egg eating by macho Mexicans, we can save thousands of turtles. If you want to improve your sex performance, go take Viagra. Don't kill one of the oldest animals on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way than they have the first half of the season. I am surprised they've done this well so soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61603]]></link><description><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. But the infield defense was really solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51758]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51758</guid></item></channel></rss>