<?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["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13064]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11412]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear  In cadence sweet; now dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear  In cadence sweet; now dying all away,   Now pealing loud again, and louder still,    Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on!     With easy force it opens all the cells      Where Memory slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47432]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19217]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13840]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to have a strong connection to Vail for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great,  Should frame life so that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17093]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great,  Should frame life so that at some future hour   Fact and his dreamings meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51172]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real happy with Gill; he came in and gave us some good innings. He throws strikes which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real happy with Gill; he came in and gave us some good innings. He throws strikes which is good and we have been wanting to get ho, some work because we feel he can be a guy for us. He will definitely get some innings when we start getting more games in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28083]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299</guid></item></channel></rss>