<?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 a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36376]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3414]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that I would be proud to be associated with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or dope or war or toadburgers, for all I care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5201]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend to just stand around, so we have to have more movement and a better mind-set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total number of convicts at the jails across the country has reached 105,000. Hopefully, the remission will really be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total number of convicts at the jails across the country has reached 105,000. Hopefully, the remission will really be issued on August 17,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36232</guid></item></channel></rss>