<?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 riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times, despite having a pretty good strategy with regard to both print and online, has probably had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New York Times, despite having a pretty good strategy with regard to both print and online, has probably had some of the most sluggish ad revenue growth in the newspaper industry and at the same time has incurred more cost increases than its peers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard and get healthy, we will be just fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35016]]></link><description><![CDATA[This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them.   And his lips, too,    How beautifully parted! No; you shall not     Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon--      His hour of midday rest is nearly over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   Consistencie's a jewell.    For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,     Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,      Wife Joan and goodman Robin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction   Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,    And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;     The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves      The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,       That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n        From gen'ral excrement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14180]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my inside-outside game is good. I can shoot the three, and I've got post moves that are pretty solid. I think I can step in right away and do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/970]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.- Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42117]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry about them because we are trying to improve here every day. We have the athletes to compete with anyone at this level. I really believe that. This team is not going to give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care for nae-body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. I enjoyed it in the locker room afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. And we're not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't here today because of Michael Roberts. We're not here today because of what he had or didn't have, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't here today because of Michael Roberts. We're not here today because of what he had or didn't have, where he lived or didn't live. We're here today because these four men are murderers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a 100 percent effort all the way but that's OK,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40379</guid></item></channel></rss>