<?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[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed. We are surrounded and penetrated by great spiritual forces of which we hardly know anything. Yet the outward events of our life cannot be understood, except in their relation to that unseen and intensely living world, the Infinite Charity which penetrates and supports us, the God whom we resist and yet for whom we thirst; who is ever at work, transforming the self-centred desire of the natural creature into the wide spreading, outpouring love of the citizen of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a small palm tree,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets... your deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55001]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets... your deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows... and yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you; even if the rest of the world does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what we're going to do with this television ad as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693]]></link><description><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt that was my best game as a pro, ... I'm not entirely satisfied with it because I made a lot of mistakes that I have to eliminate, and Peter will be the first person to tell me that on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Like People magazine, which started as a page in Time before becoming one of the country's most popular celebrity weeklies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31592]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Like People magazine, which started as a page in Time before becoming one of the country's most popular celebrity weeklies, Cooking Light debuted as a small column in Southern Living. When that proved hugely popular, two Cooking Light cookbooks were published.] They sold out, ... so we decided to launch a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place  A limit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,   Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil beginning houres may end in good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil beginning houres may end in good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[But after an immediate uproar here, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry began backpedaling.] There is no accord yet, only an idea, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31253]]></link><description><![CDATA[[But after an immediate uproar here, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry began backpedaling.] There is no accord yet, only an idea, ... This is a theme that needs to be examined when we receive a concrete proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed free throws and other opportunities hurt us. It was disappointing because this was a game we could have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who feels no compassion will become insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9183]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who feels no compassion will become insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9625</guid></item></channel></rss>