<?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[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was truly a unique thing to see, and I'm so proud of her. It was like watching a real-life high jumper, not a student or a person just trying to score points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3258]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29659]]></link><description><![CDATA[raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people have opened their eyes now. The game is getting played more and more all around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people have opened their eyes now. The game is getting played more and more all around the world. We get more respect now than we used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63227]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    April 4, 1998  The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135]]></link><description><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher:  Come forth into the light of things,   Let Nature be your teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,   Seeming with bright eyes to listen-    For what listen they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245]]></link><description><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37888]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really helped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51380</guid></item></channel></rss>