<?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[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played very sloppy early. We gave up too many goals in the first half. But we made some adjustments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played very sloppy early. We gave up too many goals in the first half. But we made some adjustments at halftime and played well enough to win in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to bewilling to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going tothe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brandon) Webb is a premier, No. 1 (starter) in this league. I felt I put some good at-bats against him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32649]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brandon) Webb is a premier, No. 1 (starter) in this league. I felt I put some good at-bats against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high infant mortality rate on reservations is due to devastating poverty. Yet the state has not passed any laws in the last several years that would boost any of the health or education programs within the reservation community. As for tribal sovereignty, the only time the state wants to recognize it is when it benefits the state, as in this instance when it allows Senator Napoli to opt out of an intelligent response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything, things have gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42189]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything, things have gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150]]></link><description><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end of May to bring us up to 5 percent. Then I think the Federal Reserve will step back for a while to smell the roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29931]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward over the next few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468]]></link><description><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption   Inhabits our frail blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item></channel></rss>