<?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[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of kings. [Fr., Si la bonne foi etait bannie du reste du monde, il faudrait qu'on la trouvat dans la bouche des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44823]]></link><description><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429]]></link><description><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020]]></link><description><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46815]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe that $55 oil prices are, at least for the time being, something of the past and that jobs are just improving at a moderate pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it... Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can not be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow, in which no work can be done any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Further rate increases are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Further rate increases are possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down',]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew through those waves. It was exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49273]]></link><description><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought to clean his tongue and wash the boots of David Beckham as they are so wet tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46758]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50973]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item></channel></rss>