<?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[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61255]]></link><description><![CDATA[That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our singles players played very solid matches today, they played very clean and had very few errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33363]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our singles players played very solid matches today, they played very clean and had very few errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You behold in me Only a travelling Physician;  One of the few who have a mission   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You behold in me Only a travelling Physician;  One of the few who have a mission   To cure incurable diseases,    Or those that are called so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41235]]></link><description><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like pollution and overpopulation. And they still offer us a tremendous escape. They're really just luscious paintings. There's nothing that can substitute for art that is about sensuality and beauty, and that's what we're offering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3708]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35420]]></link><description><![CDATA[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61742]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound,   Our deafness each one laughs about.    Then reason's light with falling ray     Doth but a trembling flicker cast.      Honor to age, ye children pay!       Alas! my fifty years are past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55358]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent;  The hills are mute: yet, how they speak of God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was a Harrods bag'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item></channel></rss>