<?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[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The pilot episode of Hatching, Matching & Dispatching (produced and co-written by Walsh) ran in January as part of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35587]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The pilot episode of Hatching, Matching & Dispatching (produced and co-written by Walsh) ran in January as part of a CBC test -- the broadcaster ran three shows and asked for public feedback before making any commitments. Walsh's show, about the Furey family who own a funeral home/wedding chapel/ambulance service, got the most response -- more than 4,700 calls and emails, 95 per cent positive.] I figured a certain portion of Newfoundland wouldn't like it because traditionally they don't, ... There's a pocket that didn't like CODCO , but the majority of the island absolutely adored it. There are always people saying we don't like the way you're representing us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you humble in this game. If you made everything, this would be an easy game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but thy good spirits   To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?    No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,     And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee      Where thrift may follow fawning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we win, we still have a chance to win the district championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,   And these fresh nymphs encounter every one    In country footing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe our league is the toughest league (in the state) as far as teams from top to bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe our league is the toughest league (in the state) as far as teams from top to bottom. On any given night, any given team can get a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66841</guid></item></channel></rss>