<?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[You kick against the goad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kick against the goad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36867]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is,  But (as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is,  But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man   That love my friend; and that they know full well    That gave me public leave to speak of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</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 are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play it safe. Second is good, but I'm sure the others will be pushing hard tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She didn't do anything wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481]]></link><description><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. [Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46723]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24161]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the air does laugh with our merry wit,   And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61493]]></link><description><![CDATA[All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61493</guid></item></channel></rss>