<?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[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the operation has been successful, so it is going to be two or three weeks before he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the operation has been successful, so it is going to be two or three weeks before he is fit and available for selection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. We should have played to conserve our 1-0 lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew about their protest and had taken precautionary steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16192]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4281]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39379]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11818]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and then go after the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39979]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke.  Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little bit of nerves. It was our first game back here and we were anxious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little bit of nerves. It was our first game back here and we were anxious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that would move the world first move himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that would move the world first move himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168</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/6980]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50427]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50427</guid></item></channel></rss>