<?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[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no will but by her high permission;   Who has not sixpence but in her possession;    Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;     Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.      Were such the wife had fallen to my part,       I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the cup and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn;  Every minute dies a man,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the cup and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn;  Every minute dies a man,   Every minute one is born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25078]]></link><description><![CDATA[And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film moves the issue closer to a more neutral stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046]]></link><description><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do the thing it should;   And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,    'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49958]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in the NHL] it seems like some guys don't expect it sometimes, so I get those shots in when I can. It differs from team to team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53801]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5808]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4211</guid></item></channel></rss>