<?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[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20077]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can do for your mite.And remember, mite makes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A flower-garden smiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We both came out of San Bernardino (Calif.) so they kind of knew each other from there and they're friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40574]]></link><description><![CDATA[We both came out of San Bernardino (Calif.) so they kind of knew each other from there and they're friends. It's going to be good to play them. We kind of know them and they're a good team so we just have to be on our toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1637]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51739]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item></channel></rss>