<?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[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, perhaps, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8210]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, perhaps, because of the tendency in His children to word-worship, false logic, and corruption of the truth, but because He would not have them oppressed by words, seeing that words, being human, and therefore but partially capable, could not absolutely contain or express what the Lord meant, and that even He must depend for being understood upon the spirit of His disciple. Seeing that it could not give life, the letter should not be throned with power to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Thou as victor crowned. [Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Thou as victor crowned. [Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21236]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21236</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/7549]]></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   The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of truth is said in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of truth is said in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest; ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day,  The swallow felt the deepest grief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58434]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day,  The swallow felt the deepest grief,   And longed to give her Lord relief,    And chirped when any near would come.     "Hugswala swala swal honom!"      Meaning, as they who tell it deem,       Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all the drug companies are behaving the same way and I think it's because they have to, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all the drug companies are behaving the same way and I think it's because they have to, ... Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, and every star,   Displayed in full and glorious manner!    Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!     Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409]]></link><description><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens unless first a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens unless first a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59083]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59083</guid></item></channel></rss>