<?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[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54100]]></link><description><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825]]></link><description><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31050]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies  To assist the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48056]]></link><description><![CDATA[But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies  To assist the spirit who truly tries.   But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code,    It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load,     It isn't a wagon, it's only a road.      And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries       Is not the goal, but the exercise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the macho Mexican man who uses the turtle eggs for sexual ends. The campaign tries to be sexy precisely to capture their attention. We are in a country where there are boring government campaigns every day that no one watches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point. Thus by denigrating prevailing beliefs and loyalties, the militant man of words unwittingly creates in the disillusioned masses a hunger for faith. For the majority of people cannot endure the barrenness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves. Thus, in spite of himself, the scoffing man of words becomes the precursor of a new faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed. Because what is going on that a senator doesn't act according to script, acts according to conscience, and everybody is taken aback?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46038]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know what it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64559]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier effect, the pace is still slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31473</guid></item></channel></rss>