<?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["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900]]></link><description><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927]]></link><description><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his own weapon do I stab him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51756]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his own weapon do I stab him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's notexcellent, it won't be profitable or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's notexcellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in businessfor fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42032]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it can happen it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39144]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there playing football. That's what you want to do. Just be out there on the field. Whatever position they put me at, I'll play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60031]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16291]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've got some young guys and we'll see. But we're bringing back three guys (in the infield) who've played there for three years and a guy who's a junior-college transfer who has experience at the college level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58864</guid></item></channel></rss>