<?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[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body image and female sexuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are happy with their health care plan today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5255]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride   On horseback after me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. Every time we sin, it is the whole of us that sins, and not just a part. The body is only the instrument of the mind and the will. All that God made, including the body with all its desires and instincts, is good in itself. But it has to be kept under control and used in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,  Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to increase his or her certainty concerning the minimum level of toxin to use,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With light volume, we're going to bounce around like a ping-pong ball. I wouldn't take any moves this week as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36834]]></link><description><![CDATA[With light volume, we're going to bounce around like a ping-pong ball. I wouldn't take any moves this week as a clear indication of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49365]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Muslim masses, ... ... do not rally except against an outside occupying enemy, especially if the enemy is firstly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Muslim masses, ... ... do not rally except against an outside occupying enemy, especially if the enemy is firstly Jewish, and secondly American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft   Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed    The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled     Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled      With melody divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Tenet's charmcovers his armsas a velvet sheathcovers a bloodied sword.***George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency hashad Afghanis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43409]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Tenet's charmcovers his armsas a velvet sheathcovers a bloodied sword.***George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency hashad Afghanis die under their interrogationcannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429]]></link><description><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429</guid></item></channel></rss>