<?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[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168]]></link><description><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. First of all, he's starting to figure out that the speed of this game's different than it was at Howard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364</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[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise counsell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36936]]></link><description><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box and some will be looking for me in space. It's good I could show them both. I feel like I helped myself. I think I had a good Senior Bowl, and at the combine I worked out pretty well. Overall, that should help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes unseen; we only see it go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes unseen; we only see it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;  But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',   They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.(typo corrected).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37047]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has already weakened and frankly this kind of move isn't going to matter very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3264]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field on the east side of town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802</guid></item></channel></rss>