<?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[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though a whole town's against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  A comprehended god is no god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  A comprehended god is no god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener or of Wetter.    Dip a spoonful out     And mind you don't get groggy,      Pour it in the lake       Of Winnipissiogie.        Stir the mixture well         Lest it prove inferior,          Then put half a drop           Into Lake Superior.            Every other day             Take a drop in water,              You'll be better soon               Or at least you oughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear is to heed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear is to heed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was a Harrods bag'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky  With heaven's pale candles stored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14254]]></link><description><![CDATA[How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky  With heaven's pale candles stored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19195]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33358]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when they needed to to get that win in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748</guid></item></channel></rss>