<?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 power to tax involves the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654]]></link><description><![CDATA[then reversed and ran over her again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were truly Christian, the change might be a reason for rejoicing. We no longer need our families -- we are therefore free to love them with complete unselfishness. Now at last it is possible to honour our parents genuinely, because they no longer have the power to kill us if we don't. The old sort of honour was sometimes an ugly sham: the son who respects Father only out of fear of punishment is not much of a son, just as the Christian who worships God only out of fear of hell is precious little of a Christian. But the new sort of honour can be a beautiful and holy thing. There are many sweet and sane families bound together by love; there are plenty of experts who remind us that only love can make the modern family work at all. And one must admit that there are plenty of parents very willing to be honoured. The catch is that not so many of them are willing to be honourable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People are shooting!,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people have opened their eyes now. The game is getting played more and more all around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people have opened their eyes now. The game is getting played more and more all around the world. We get more respect now than we used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19149]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11675]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls   Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;    Pillars and doors all were of brass;     Windows of latten were set with glass;      It was so rich in many wise,       That it was like a paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rest of the games for the rest of the season are big games. It was good to start today. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rest of the games for the rest of the season are big games. It was good to start today. When you have to play every possession, it?s really good for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In delay there lies no plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48308]]></link><description><![CDATA[In delay there lies no plenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she   Away the Graces would no Graces be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141]]></link><description><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761</guid></item></channel></rss>