<?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[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How some have been deposed, some slain in war,   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,    Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--     All murdered; for within the hollow crown      That rounds the mortal temples of a king       Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,        Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;         Allowing him a breath, a little scene,          To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;           Infusing him with self and vain conceit,            As if this flesh which walls about our life             Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,              Comes at the last, and with a little pin               Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!                Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood                 With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,                  Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;                   For you have but mistook me all this while.                    I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,                     Need friends. Subjected thus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,   And they who follow me reach every state    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,        I answer not, and I return no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little support for a playoff among presidents of major universities, and I believe some voted for the 12th game in lieu of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A host in the sunshine, an army in June,   The people God sends us to set our heart free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36248]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, and rightly so,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope to have most of the funds raised by the July 2006 Woodford County 4-H Fair, and have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope to have most of the funds raised by the July 2006 Woodford County 4-H Fair, and have the new building up and operating for the 2007 fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15302]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53378]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1915]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060]]></link><description><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With gently smiling jaws!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item></channel></rss>