<?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[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664]]></link><description><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089</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[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48914]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23776]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1280]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1919]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's commitment to bring justice to all those who plot murder and orchestrate terror, no matter how long they run or how far they flee,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50392]]></link><description><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man's world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man's world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal to a younger generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that trots about finds a bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41173</guid></item></channel></rss>