<?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[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65214]]></link><description><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is tougher than any loss that we've had this year. It doesn't feel good to lose that streak. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34768]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is tougher than any loss that we've had this year. It doesn't feel good to lose that streak. We know we are better than that. We just didn't bring it today for some reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30048]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft   Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed    The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled     Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled      With melody divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17666]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57912]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for it would be foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66839]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28685]]></link><description><![CDATA[ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was cut in half, and there's no longer a two-tiered structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!1973]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38498</guid></item></channel></rss>