<?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[Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are these poor habiliments,   Of which if you should here disfurnish me,    You take the sum and substance that I have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</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[A bully is a coward turned inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he fell down. The TV in his room was knocked off its stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merchant has no country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merchant has no country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48290]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime,  When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm   Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great dowry is a bed full of brables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49032]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great dowry is a bed full of brables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41759]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24766]]></link><description><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36665]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But it's a business. They do what they do to benefit the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14595</guid></item></channel></rss>