<?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[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be on live TV with the prime minister. I want to explain what we think about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be on live TV with the prime minister. I want to explain what we think about the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38375]]></link><description><![CDATA[[DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a little bit more to go, but I felt pretty good, ... I felt like my old self out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money wants no followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money wants no followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24468]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He still loves Moe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35859]]></link><description><![CDATA[He still loves Moe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37903]]></link><description><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, we may see another rally between now and the end of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were on a pretty good streak and things just don't change overnight. ... It comes down to believing in each other and finding a way to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495]]></link><description><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  You will tell me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  You will tell me that I am always saying the same thing: it is true, for this is the best and easiest method I know; and as I use no other, I advise all the world to it. We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past doesn't equal the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past doesn't equal the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener or of Wetter.    Dip a spoonful out     And mind you don't get groggy,      Pour it in the lake       Of Winnipissiogie.        Stir the mixture well         Lest it prove inferior,          Then put half a drop           Into Lake Superior.            Every other day             Take a drop in water,              You'll be better soon               Or at least you oughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52043</guid></item></channel></rss>