<?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[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11931]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They went really bold this year. With all the color out there you'd think we were going back in time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37296]]></link><description><![CDATA[They went really bold this year. With all the color out there you'd think we were going back in time. ... I don't know how well men will react to all the changes, but they'll definitely have opportunities to have more fun with how they look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19035]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't happen, we'll simply have to interrupt the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33693]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't happen, we'll simply have to interrupt the talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not lack strength; they lack will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61626]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not lack strength; they lack will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585]]></link><description><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21078]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which youknow exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quituntil you get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item></channel></rss>