<?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[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is a half-filled auditorium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send  Thy summoning archangels to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send  Thy summoning archangels to proclaim   Thy dread tribunal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33130]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are in some brown study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58040]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are in some brown study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29664]]></link><description><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use it or lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use it or lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment all showing improvement. There are more than enough reasons to expect that domestic demand-related stocks will rise further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29212]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item></channel></rss>