<?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[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10884]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But an untimely grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18217]]></link><description><![CDATA[But an untimely grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday afternoon is usually not the best time to get people's attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon is usually not the best time to get people's attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25016]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the last fortnight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My guess is that (Merkel's) Christian Democrats might be marginally more in line with the U.S. position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man Proposeth, God disposeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,   Then must it be an awful thing to die;    More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be entirely free of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the numbers, yes and no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25229]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled to loosen up and our shots started falling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41807]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41807</guid></item></channel></rss>