<?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[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   Glad of the sun and rain,    Upright, serene, humane,     Contented with the fortune of a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33662]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis  Que les imitateurs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky  With heaven's pale candles stored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14254]]></link><description><![CDATA[How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky  With heaven's pale candles stored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do nothing is also a good remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do nothing is also a good remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 17 counties have to change vendors before June, that's going to be a huge challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40078]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 17 counties have to change vendors before June, that's going to be a huge challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36138]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13692]]></link><description><![CDATA[This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ... I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a nuclear bomb exploding in one of our cities in less than a decade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47387]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is God's minister,    And labors for some good     By us not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299</guid></item></channel></rss>