<?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[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43397]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495]]></link><description><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,   The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from Kennebec Rental in Fairfield where Bob works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,   And maidens call it love-in-idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,    At the last of the thirty palace-gates     The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,      Orders a feast in his favorite room--       Glittering square of colored ice,        Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,         Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,          Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,           Limes and citrons and apricots,            And wines that are known to Eastern princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round forever;    I think that life is not too long,     And therefore I determine,      That many people read a song,       Who will not read a sermon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go away--    Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold     Than their weight in solid gold,      Slips their grip while greetin' you,--       Say good-bye er howdy-do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979</guid></item></channel></rss>