<?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 Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again, ... Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again, ... Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys who are the big names so important?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks got a little bit ahead of the fundamentals as a number of companies have met or exceeded second-quarter expectations but haven't necessarily raised the bar for future quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54485]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly hung   Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will be technically feasible to have a large-size OLED TV by Super Bowl 50. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will be technically feasible to have a large-size OLED TV by Super Bowl 50.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked him if he had any ideas for movies that he could star in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself -- "this grace wherein we stand". This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit's liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item></channel></rss>