<?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[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768]]></link><description><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,   That gall'd not while it glitter'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,--  And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.--   Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56069]]></link><description><![CDATA[And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51068]]></link><description><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   Is wiser than his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in Spam?nostrils brains?and eyesintestinal linings and uteri?anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?except the blood already out the doorSpam comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61354]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in Spam?nostrils brains?and eyesintestinal linings and uteri?anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?except the blood already out the doorSpam comes from offalSpam smells... awfulfrom murdering pigs Hormel makes Spamfrom butchering pigs Hormel makes ham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60512]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot   And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't the substitution that turned the match, individual errors led to the Czech goals, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't the substitution that turned the match, individual errors led to the Czech goals,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer than they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41455</guid></item></channel></rss>