<?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[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when a dream transcends to desire and intention is conquered by cupidity, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirabilityÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â is reduced to depravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.   My own hope is, a sun will pierce    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;     That, after Last, returns the First,      Though a wide compass round be fetched;       That what began best, can't end worst,        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And one refusal no rebuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/776]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser de la muger.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting elementary school students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11560]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37722]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False Impression to me was very important indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. -Anthony Robbins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. -Anthony Robbins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very deep jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48893</guid></item></channel></rss>